Picture Warning!!

[johnnyturbouk]

Yeah, I didn't even realise that the pictures were recording this sort of info. I wonder if other people don't know this?

i did not know this either:

also turned of the location settings

 

[ChazUK]

You can check any pic on your drive, or any that you've already uploaded by right-clicking the pic and copying the URL and pasting it in here:

http://regex.info/exif.cgi

It'll show the Google map of where it was taken and all other exif info.

That site is great Sonicjay. Very useful, thanks.

 

[CylonGlitch]

OP, you're probably on twitter and Facebook, correct? With the security issues those two sites have I think you have more to worry about than if jimbo is planning on camping out in your front yard.

I do know that Facebook removes the EXIF information from the files when they are uploaded; at least they are doing something right.

 

[steadysignal]

Parents might care where their kid took pictures.

Estranged couples might not want the other one to know, either.

Plenty of reasons for a user to want to hide location info.

true indeed. but, for the most part, people can figure things out without exif data... there is very little privacy anymore...

if any...

 

[Fuchal]

Camera asks you if you want to allow it to use your location information the first time you launch it

 

[someone28624]

Is it true that changing a picture to PNG format strips the EXIF data?

 

[Reefbone]

Also how can I check pictures that I have already uploaded to Twitpic don't have my location in the pic info.

IMO it seem like Tweetpic would be the place to ask that question.

Since you already know it's called EXIF data I question why are you're really asking. It's not that hard to make the jump to google the term "remove exif".

 

[Consultant]

If you upload a smaller version (say email), then it doesn't have the location.

Or just turn it off.

 

[stroked]

IMO it seem like Tweetpic would be the place to ask that question.

Since you already know it's called EXIF data I question why are you're really asking. It's not that hard to make the jump to google the term "remove exif".

I'm glad he posted. I learned a few things.

 

[djrobsd]

In my tests, I found that photos uploaded to Picasa and Facebook were stripped of their EXIF data, so when I tried to save them back on my computer, the EXIF data was gone. Now though ,Facebook even uses something new for their photo viewing pop up window, so there is no open when you right click to Save the photo locally.

I think a lot of people are making mountains out of mole hills, but it would definitely be interesting to get a list of sites that are stripping the data out, and those that aren't. I'm sure with all the media attention, more sites will be rushing to remove this data from the pictures.

I see no issue with people knowing where I was when the photos were taken, but I can understand a parent who might be worried about a creepy child molester stalking their kids online...

And for those who are ultra paranoid... there's a site for that.

http://onlineexifremover.com/

 

[stroked]

And for those who are ultra paranoid... there's a site for that.

http://onlineexifremover.com/

Who is going to trust an online site, if their ultra paranoid?