I can scribble out identifying info (text, landmarks, faces) in an image, but I’ve heard images can have some geographic data. How do I remove that?

And video is a whole separate challenge - I don’t know how to edit video. Does video have other metadata like my location or stuff about my device? What’s some software good for beginners? How do you remove excess metadata with it?

Are there other considerations I should have?

(If there are step-by-step resources out there, please feel free to just link me to them.)

Thanks in advance!

  • @disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
    11•22 days ago

    Yup. Editing or deleting the exif data is the best way to go. If you just want to quickly remove location data, use a screenshot of the image.

    • @undefined@links.hackliberty.org
      1•11 days ago

      If you care at all about quality please don’t just screenshot it — not sure about Android but at least on iOS and macOS it’s pretty easy to remove the location information.