Review: Wipe EXIF metadata from your images using ExifCleaner

January 24, 2013

When you take a digital photo, you are taking more than just the photo. You are also capturing a whole range of personally identifiable information which could compromise your privacy if it ever fell into the wrong hands. That information is called EXIF metadata and a lot of people don’t even realize that this data is embedded inside their images. The good news though is that it can be easily removed with a program such as ExifCleaner ($19, 30-day free trial). What kind of information are we talking about? Well it can range from the mundane such as the make and model of the camera that took the picture, the picture resolution, the light source, and so on. But it can also be as serious as where you took the photo and what date you took it, and this information may be preserved when you post a photo online. So anyone looking to track you down knows where you are in the world, and anyone wanting to tie you to a specific place at a specific time only has to look at the EXIF data. This can be particularly serious for people who live in oppressive regimes, journalists and bloggers looking to protect a source, and whistleblowers who want to keep their identity secret. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025827/review-wipe-exif-metadata-from-your-images-using-exifcleaner.html