if i had a nickel for every time i've seen someone's self-hosted blog with unredacted geolocation exif in the images, i'd have three nickels from today alone
four. i'd have four nickels.
five nickels.
i'm at a point now where if i'm reading your self-hosted blog and i see a photo that looks like it was taken on a smartphone i immediately get worried
(and then i check the exif tags and if they're leaking your address i email you)

@luna

if, like me, you've been following Luna's comments on this and getting increasingly nervous, here is a command for removing all location metadata from JPG/WEBP images (the usual offenders) in a directory tree on Unixy platforms, assuming your paths don't contain spaces.

for file in $(find . -name "*.jpeg" -or -name "*.jpg" -or -name "*.webp"); do exiftool -gps:all= $file; done

GitHub - allanlw/gps-detect: Firefox addon for detecting GPS EXIF info in JPEGs automatically

Firefox addon for detecting GPS EXIF info in JPEGs automatically - allanlw/gps-detect

GitHub

@cliffle @luna

You don't even need the loop!

find . -name "*.jpeg" -or -name "*.jpg" -or -name "*.webp" -execdir exiftool -gps:all= "{}" \;

@luna In a digital safety course for kids we show a video back from the days when big social media networks did not strip metadata on upload.

In the video, the camera person approaches seemingly random people on the street whose current location they extracted from the metadata in posted pictures. The interviewer then asks personal questions derived from the profile or the location metadata like "how was your last holiday in ...? Your name is ..., isn't it?" and at one person "You work at <secret agency>, don't you?" You can visibly see the shock in the face of the people, especially the secret agent.

@varbin @luna also never ever rely on #AntisocialNetworks to do that!

@luna Flirting attempt by publishing selfies with email in exif. Hypothetically.
@luna you're making ME worried. which I guess is the idea.
@luna Years ago, when I found out EXIF data can contain location info, I immediately disabled any access to Location that any camera app requested. It's so dangerous to just have stuff like this easily accessible online.
@igimenezblb @luna I did too - but don’t most social media apps strip this information out?
@dxzdb If the past few years of nightmare social media stories have taught me anything, it's to not trust them on their word that they are doing what they claim to be doing.

@igimenezblb sounds wise.

I do sometimes wish I had a record of location in my photos - but I know I’d forget sometimes

@dxzdb @igimenezblb yes, but the key word is "most" i.e. "not all"
@luna i reflexively strip exif data from images i take on my phone even if it shouldn't have geolocation in the first place or is being copied to sites that i know strip it on upload
@luna
I use a photo service (that I wrote and host myself) to scale the images for suitable sizes, and that also removes exif. But that is not mainly for security but as a size optimization. There is a metapage on my blog stating my email address and full physical address (and some old pages that show photos and includes a map that pinpoints where they were taken).

@luna Okay, I'll get a Polaroid camera and start scanning them into the computer instead.

...

Okay, actually that sounds amazing, I may not be joking anymore.

@luna looking at my old posts: OMG, I messed this up myself so much, in the past ;_;
@luna how many blogs do you read, luna