A flurry of newspaper articles highlight albeit in dramatic fashion, an important issue about privacy and children’s digital rights when parents posts photos and details about their childhood on social media. The research report from Alexis Hiniker at the University of Washington and Sarita Schoenebeck at the University of Michigan is illuminating about children’s views.
Currently Facebook strips out EXIF data that contains location information in photos posted on Facebook, providing a degree of protection for adoptive families who post photos but need to guard their location. This feature has not pleased some groups of professional photographers who argue that the feature prevents them from inserting metadata that’s important for … Read more
Most digital cameras record the GPS coordinates of a photo you take in the EXIF metadata. This means that anyone you share a photo with can learn exactly where (and when) the photo was taken. In addition, there are other ways in which you can be located from photos you post online. When you share … Read more
The problem is you can’t rely on social media to automatically remove location data from photos you post online. Currently Facebook automatically strips out the EXIF information (that contains location coordinates) from uploaded photos. They do this for privacy reasons. They also strip out the IPTC information that professional photographers insert (eg on your wedding … Read more
