Picture exif data, tags, meta data

[NEED 4 SEED]

I stumbled upon this, the file tags were always being deleted when uploading a photo to icmag. That's not the case anymore. Every tag is still there when you look at the media data view. Only when downloading that pic again Icmag deletes those tags in that copy but they stay online.
This should be taken care of immediately i.m.o. or at least being announced.

 

[chilliwilli]

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[mr.brunch]

What does this mean, it sounds worrying

 

[NEED 4 SEED]

Waiting for the website support...

 

[ost]

What does this mean, it sounds worrying

that kind of thing makes, me lerry of posting photos!

 

[ost]

Waiting for the website support...

wonder how long it takes ,web master to go to work ?

 

[CosmicGiggle]

Actually, this is a volunteer position as far as I know and the issue is being addressed.

 

[ost]

Actually, this is a volunteer position as far as I know and the issue is being addressed.

nope no job interview for me ,not computer savvy!

 

[NEED 4 SEED]

Actually, this is a volunteer position as far as I know and the issue is being addressed.

The question is for how long this has been known and addressed

 

[Ca++]

This is indeed a very serious issue. If was just a couple of months ago I was made aware we could see some users locations, as their phones were attaching this information into the metadata. Thus, we can easily find peoples crops.

The website shouldn't of really come online with a fault like this.


However, ultimately the sharing of data isn't a site issue. It's a user issue. It is the user giving it all away.


An answer?
Well I personally use a PC. My photo's go from phone to PC, via usb. Not a 3rd party, such as my network. On my PC, they live in a folder. I have another folder, labeled IC. I also have a bit of software, called exifpurge. This software scrubs photos clean. In operation, it want's pointing to the dirty photos, and a place to put scrubbed copies. In my case, the IC folder. Nothing ever gets put in the IC folder, unless exifpurge puts it there. Thus, I know everything in there is clean. Everything elsewhere is dirty.

I can't even take a pic from the IC folder into paint, and crop it. This must be done while the pic is dirty. Any use of paint on a clean pic, is attached to the pic. Pics hold more data about where they have been, than you would ever think they need to.

If anyone knows of another clean folder option, that works differently, please do share. What I would really like, is a clean folder, that is automatically scrubbing everything added to it. So I can just drag&drop
Phone users probably can't use exifpurge, but their might be something?

Never expect any site to do this for you. Some sites (eg uk 420) are not even https. Meaning all communications between you and them, are not even coded. It's a hackers dream. Here at IC, it's at least secure communications, unless you choose to publish a pic with the data attached.


I would feel relieved to hear this is fixed now. I don't spend time checking peoples pics, so it might be sorted.

 

[jgaf]

Bump, this is really important and still hasn't been addressed. I'm sure there are plugins available for the forum software that do this. For example here is a plugging for xenforo that does this https://xenforo.com/community/resources/wmtech-exif-location-data-remover.4428/ probably not too much cost to hire a programmer to do this as well if that's not compatible with the software version used.