Hello all,

Just a quick note to let you know that as of today, all images uploaded to the gallery will be stripped of their EXIF data. This data can contain information such as the GPS location where a photo was taken.

All images currently in the gallery have also been processed to remove this sensitive information.

good call  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Along with copyright notices

Er, right, have I stripped copyright data from photos when I shouldn't have?!?

There's no intention to overrule any copyright by me, BTW.

i think Taz photos exif data have his copyright on them, well the ones from his camera

its not a watermark ,but embedded

I can see the reasoning for the GPS, but i don't think you can choose what stays and goes Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Right, OK, I've stuffed up then

Taz will shed more light on it

But having GPS data could lead the theft of cars etc Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Martin wrote:

Right, OK, I've stuffed up then

never


Don't worry, I always upload low res versions of images to help stop the TWOCAS, but yes my camera automatically adds a copyright notice to the EXIF data.
It's not a huge problem, Flickr and other photo sites also rip the exif data out which is annoying as some of those images are quite high res.

On balance, the location information that is removed is more important, I wonder how many people didn't realise that many of there photo's had this info attached without them knowing?

If anyone is worried about theft of images then uploading at a resolution of 72dpi will prevent large copies from being made and also helps the servers as the file is much smaller, I must admit, I forget to do this sometimes.

i just link to my full res flickr jpegs

when i have photos worth stealing i might change  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Right, this is actually not as bad as it could have been.

Most photos in the gallery already had the information removed, as if you uploaded a very large photo then it was resized down, which dropped the data.

Uploaded photos which were under the size limit and which use the Copyright field in the IPTC data have kept this data.

Does this mean Nick and I get a free life when we hit the delete forum button

Don't think it was from a "stealing a car" point of view, more to try to prevent people stalking others. It was in the news how some people use the data to do this.

I think I saw the same report, American police officer and reports use about young children iirc Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

You don't think it will happen here, but you never know. I am sure Ive seen a member on here suggesting something like that.

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