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Strip EXIF data

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Piers

Piers

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I have noticed that the images uploaded still contain the EXIF data - is there any way to 'clean' that once they are uploaded?
 
Similar issue here, love the script but some of these things that never get answered are very off putting.
 
For instance, people don't want the world knowing what city they live in when they post a picture that has gps exif available.
 
The privacy layer has nothing to do with the Exif data and Exif data displayed is only camera values (not GPS or any other information). You as an admin have full access to that information and you should because maybe police will need that info to get a pedo or something. They will considerer you as non coperative if you don't store that info.

Now, a topic from 2011 most likely won't get that attention since the system was completely different in those days.
 
The exif data displayed is only camera information but what about the exif data stored on the image itself? If it is not stripped it is a huge privacy issue for certain users. Mine for instance.

I am fully aware of the laws in regards to this information. The largest image hosting site on the planet imgur strips this data and for good reason. It is why they are they largest.

Why do you tell customers what they should do instead of helping them figure out how to use your script to do what they need?
 
They strip it to save space, thats all. Flickr doesn't strip it and it shows way more exif data than Chevereto, is Flickr wrong then?.

Like I said, the exif data shown has no sensitive data at all. if the user don't want to expose that data then just turn off the gps of the camera or something.

And by the way, imgur is not big because of their service, is just because it got helped by reddit. Flickr is way more service than imgur.
 
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They strip it because people are stupid and don't know how much data is actually on their images. Imgur was helped by reddit but Imgur got big because they do things right, like not showing exif data when people do not want that information public. I was there when these discussions went down.

I love your script, I don't quite understand why you can't accept that different people might have different uses. I have girls posting their own naked images on my site, they do not want to worry about someone knowing where they live via exif data in the original image.

That is all.
 
This one is quite old, but I've saw an increased interest in the need of this functionality. It will be added to the system as an optional parameter in both upload and user settings.
 
+1 for this one. I've seen some pretty detailed info in some image data. Like DLSR Android camera owner...
Not that I feel it's my responsability as an image host to strip the data but the option would be a nice heads up to the users.
 
I want to keep the EXIF data, but you can strip the data to only give camera info such as type camera, type lens, shutter speed, exposure compensation, F number, what metering system was used, if a flash was used, ISO number, date and time the image was taken, whitebalance, auxiliary lenses that were used and resolution. This is normal info is without revealing privacy sensitive data.
 
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