No, the default should be removing everything but maybe the date because of privacy implications.
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SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 months agoI guess this would be a good reason to include some exif data when images are hosted on websites, one of the only ways to tell an image is true from my little understanding.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 months ago
inlcude some EXIF data
Thats what I said.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The device is no more anyone else’s business than anything else.
It should absolutely not be shared by default.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To prove the legibility of the image? It’s a great data point that’s pretty anonymous, they don’t need to include the Mac, sim, serial or other information.
CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Exif data can be faked.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I guess, but the original image would be somewhere to be scraped by google to compare and see an earlier version.
CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It seems like you’re assuming that file modified times are fixed…? Every piece of metadata like that can be altered. If you took a picture and posted it somewhere, I could take it and alter it to my liking, then add in some fake exif data as well as make it look like I modified the image before your actual original version.
You can’t use any of that metadata to prove anything.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, b but it seems like you’re assuming they would look at this sandboxed by itself…? Of course there is more than one data point to look at, when you uploaded the image would noted, so even if you uploaded an image with older exif data, so what? The original poster would still have the original image, and the original image would have scraped and documented when it was hosted. So you host the image with fake data later, and it compares the two and sees that your fake one was posted 6 months later, it gets flagged like it should. And the original owner can claim authenticity.
Metadata provides a trail and can be used with other data points to show authenticity when a bad actor appears for your image.