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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by lights0123 on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:09PM (#45066717)
It does, and location and captions are stripped by default using the system picker. It's the switches icon in the bottom left.
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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by kccqzy on Friday August 29, 2025 @02:03PM (#45067422)
Doesn't strip all metadata, such as make/model, ISO, aperture etc.
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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by danielheath on Friday August 29, 2025 @08:06PM (#45070784)
No, but "photo taken on one of the most common phone models in existence" is not _especially_ identifying.
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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by kccqzy on Sunday August 31, 2025 @01:45AM (#45080654)
I don't want people to know the precise date time of taking the photo. I don't want people to know whether I'm frugal and staying on iPhone 12 or I splurged and upgraded to iPhone 16 Pro. I don't want people to know the version of iOS I was running. I don't want people to know the name of the software that I used to adjust the curves and white balance.
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