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METADATA
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WHAT IS METADATA?
Metadata is "data that provides information about other data.

TYPES OF METADATA
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With the explosion of social networks, many data mining companies are now collecting content from public profiles and adding it to a person’s record. Examples include: Images, Documents , Videos, location sharing ext. Overall, society has made it acceptable to provide ever level of personal detail to the corporations that own these networks. We have been trained to “like” or “favorite” anything that we find enjoyable or feel pressured into identifying with. These actions seem innocent until we discover the extent of usage of this data. Think about your online actions another way. Would you ever consider spending time every day submitting personal details to online survey websites Further, would you consider doing this for free? Would you sit down for an hour each day with a complete stranger and answer invasive questions about the details of your life and your likes and dislikes, knowing that he was going to sell this information? Not to mention the fact that all of this information, is gold in the hands of private investigators and police officers when conducting an investigation and MANY people have been caught because of data found on social networks, and consequently that data was used in court to further persecute their actions.

Essentially, when you create a Facebook account you are agreeing to work as unpaid survey-taker, photographer, and writer. When you “like” a site you are
adding to Facebook’s trove of data about you. When you install the Facebook app on your phone you give Facebook permission to access your location data, letting
the service track you everywhere you go.

When you upload photos to Instagram you are actually giving them, in perpetuity, to Facebook who can use them for almost any purpose whatsoever. When you update your status, submit a photo, or comment on Facebook you are voluntarily giving them data they can resell or reuse in almost any legal way. This in addition to the fact that all your posts, status
updates, likes, and other actions are used to build an incredibly accurate profile about you. Your photos are used in facial recognition software so accurate that Facebook could even build a near-perfect 3D model of your body. You aren’t the customer, you are the product.
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The other danger of social networks and other services that rely on data collection is that they never forget. While you can delete your Facebook or Google account,
the information that you have submitted to the service will always be retained in some form. While Google may not keep the entirety of your emails, your profile will be saved for potential future use. While using some of these services, teenagers and adults are making IRREVERSIBLE decisions.

I personally recommend deleting and removing all of your social networks. It is very important that you first replace every single information with fake info., before actually deleting your account.

EXIF DATA
Every digital photograph capture with a digital camera possesses metadata known as Exif data. This is a layer of code that provides information about the photo and
camera
. All digital cameras write this data to each image, but the amount and type of data can vary. This data, which is embedded into each photo “behind the scenes”, is not visible within the captures image. You need an Exif reader, which can be found on websites and within applications. Keep in mind that most social network websites remove or “scrub” this data before being stored on their
servers. Facebook, for example, removes the data while Flickr does not. If the image has been compressed to a smaller file size, this data is often lost. However,
most photo sharing websites offer a full size view. The easiest way to see the information is through an online viewer.

EXIF VIEWER :
https://www.extractmetadata.com/
the online standard for displaying Exif data. The site will allow analysis of any image found online or stored on a drive connected to your computer. The home page provides two search options. The first option you will choose and open a file explorer window that will allow you to select a file on your computer for analysis. And the second option, you will copy and paste the URL of an image. The file types supported are also identified on this page.

The first section of the results will usually provide the make and model of the camera used to capture the image. Many cameras will also identify the lens used,
exposure settings, flash usage, date and time of capture and file size. This is a lot of data to share with the world.

Scrolling down the analysis page will then identify the serial number field. This is most common in newer, costlier digital cameras and may not be present in less expensive cameras. These cameras will identify the make, model, and serial number of the camera inside every photo they capture.

EXIFTOOL :
As I express constantly on these pages, I typically prefer local solutions over cloud-based solutions. ExifTool is a simple, lightweight tool that will quickly
and easily display the Exif data contained on photographs. It runs in portable mode and does not require you to permanently install the application. To view Exif data
for a photo simply open ExifTool and drag the photo onto the command line interface. A list of all available Exif data will be displayed. This tool can be used to
see what metadata needs to be removed from the photo, and to verify that it has been removed before uploading. ExifTool is free and available by visiting https://exiftool.en.lo4d.com/windows/. A graphical user interface (GUI) that makes ExifTool easier to user, especially for bulk photos, can be downloaded athttps://www.gphotoshow.com/free-software/exif-iptc-watermarker.html/.
A serial number of a camera associated with an image can be valuable data. This can help someone associate photos that you “anonymously” posted to the internet directly to you. For example, if a stalker found a photo that you posted on your Twitter feed that you took with your camera, he or she may be able to
identify the serial number of your camera. If the stalker then finds a photo and suspects that you took it but posted anonymously, he or she can see if the serial numbers match. I bring this up to explain the next threat.

STOLEN CAMERA FINDER
This site https://www.stolencamerafinder.com/ was designed to help camera theft victims with locating their camera if it is being used by the thief online. For that use, you would find a photo taken with the stolen camera, and drop it into the site
for analysis. This analysis identifies a serial number if possible. If one is located, the service then presents links to photo-sharing websites, such as Flickr, that contain photos with the same serial number. This can locate photos that you may not want to take credit for.

CAMERA TRACE
Type in the serial number of a camera and the site will attempt to locate any online photographs taken with the camera. This service
claims to have indexed all of Flickr, Twitter, Twitpic, Panoramio, and 500px.

GPS
Many new SLR cameras, and almost all cellular telephone cameras, now include GPS. If the GPS is on, and the user did not disable geo tagging of the photos in the camera settings, you will get location data within the Exif data of the photo. This field will translate the captured GPS coordinates from the photo and identify the location of the photo. Further down an Exif results page, the site will display an image from Google Maps identifying the exact point of the GPS associated with the photo. All Android and iPhone devices have this capability.

CROPPED PHOTOS
Another piece of information that can be located from the Exif data is the presence of a thumbnail image within the photograph. Digital cameras generate a small version of the photo captured and store it within the Exif data. This icon size
image adds very little size to the overall file. When a user crops the image, this original smaller version may or may not get overwritten. Programs such as Photoshop or Microsoft Photo Editor will overwrite the data and keep both images identical. Other programs, as well as some online cropping tools, do not overwrite this data. The result is the presence of the original and uncropped image within the Exif data of the cropped photo. You can now see what the image looked like before it was cropped.

If you have a situation where it is necessary to upload photos to the internet, you may want to consider removing this metadata.

EXIF REMOVER
This website www.verexif.com/en/
allows you to upload a digital image and either view or remove the metadata attached to it. Click on the “Browse” button, locate the photo you want to edit, and click “Remove Exif”. You will be presented with a new download that will contain your image without the Exif data embedded. ExifTool will also allow you to remove this data without touching the internet.

QUBES – WHONIX MAT SOLUTION
This is by far my favorite method to scrub any Exif data from my pictures, and any metadata from my documents.

Whonix-workstation comes with a pre-installed application called MAT (Metadata Anonymization Toolkit). You can follow the steps in the Whonix website to use this program, but it is fairly straight forward and easy.

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Metadata/

CONCLUSION :
Hope you can now clear the metadata of your photos, videos and Documents ext.

GOOD LUCK! 🤞
 
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