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   Serhii Shyman (shaman@cryptotalks.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 18:52:23 JST Serhii Shyman

   In 2012, a Burger King employee anonymously posted an image on 4-chan of his feet in lettuce, with the caption: "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King."
   It took 20 minutes for people to track down the branch the employee worked at and contact the news. He was promptly fired.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 18:52:22 JST 翠星石

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     • tallship
     @tallship >He could have at least been arrested for "some kind" of public health related misdemeanor.
     There would only be grounds for that if he put the lettuce back ready to be served.
     
     If he disposed of the lettuce and cleaned the containers, there would be no public health issue.
     
     He would still get fired for wasting $5 worth of lettuce though and he did.
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     tallship@obo.sh's status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 18:52:23 JST tallship

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     • Gabe

     @shaman
     What a douchebag...

     Fired? That's it? He could have at least been arrested for "some kind" of public health related misdemeanor. Geez!

     #tallship #miscreants #criminal
     @gabriel

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 18:57:57 JST 翠星石

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     • MattZ
     @colinsmatt11 >Make it remove privacy compromising data such as location.
     It's not really possible to do that for sure - there is more than one method of encoding the location for example.
     
     Even very trivial metadata is sometimes very privacy compromising, so it's best to strip all EXIF data by default.
     
     
     For the rare legitimate usage of EXIF data, a setting can be added to not strip.
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     MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 18:57:58 JST MattZ

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     • Gabe
     • tallship
     • Dame DuhLaurien
     @tallship @shaman @Hyolobrika @gabriel @Laurien Indeed, rather than stripping all exif data. Make it remove privacy compromising data such as location.
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     tallship@obo.sh's status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 18:57:59 JST tallship

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     • MattZ
     • Gabe
     • Dame DuhLaurien

     @colinsmatt11 @shaman @Hyolobrika @gabriel

     I recently saw a request from someone describing themselves as a prolific photographer in the #Fedilab #Matrix support room, asking if the devs could add a feature to use the EXIF data for the alt tags - they cited extremely non-trivial effort to do that manually.

     It obviously issn't for everyone, with most folks preferring to fill out the alt data for the images they upload themselves, but it made a lot of sense for a #prolific_uploader of images in #Fediverse posts.

     I'm glad you brought this up, because it's exactly what I was thinking when I became aware that stripping the EXIF data was the default on #Friendica, and disabling that feature is an "opt-out" option.

     I don't even know if there's still such a site as #Foursquare, but about ten years ago it was a popular "check-in" site that integrated with #Faceplant.

     You would basically do a check-in wherever you were and people could track you via lat/lon or physical address or the business name IIRC, and you could include pics too I think - that's one use case.

     Another very good one, snapping a pic and then later uploading it as a Fediverse post in #Friendica (there's an OSM geolocation plugin), which I gather could generate a map based on the EXIF data in their photo.

     I can't tell you how many times I've seen pics and wondered where the photos were taken. #Pixelfed should have such an option (does it?) w/OSM mapping toggle on upload.

     I don't think any other Fediverse server platforms have that.

     Extrapolating that EXIF data for the alt tags in photos uploaded as part of posts (with corresponding maps even) sounds like a great idea - but preferably not as a default setting lolz.

     On another note, there's a shitload of really stupid dope farmers here in Humboldt county posting pics of their weed fields on #InstaSPAM, and then wondering why they're getting helicopter flyovers and "Abatement Letters" from the county, followed by the caravans that roll up the mountain, raid, and destroy their crops lolz.

     That's what apps like #ImagePipe are for (stripping EXIF data before posting publicly). ImagePipe is available at F-Droid, BTW. ?

     @Laurien (pls pass on to Sir Spencer - he'll get a kick out of that!)

     #tallship #FOSS #privacy #geolocation #EXIF #check_in

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     MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 18:58:00 JST MattZ

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     • Hyolobrikator
     • Gabe
     • tallship
     @Hyolobrika @tallship @gabriel @shaman Sometimes you do need exif data, so automatic stripping might be a bad option
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     Hyolobrikator (hyolobrika@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 18:58:01 JST Hyolobrikator

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     • tallship
     @tallship @gabriel @shaman I think GrapheneOS strips it automatically
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     Gabe (gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 18:58:02 JST Gabe

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     • tallship

     @tallship@obo.sh @shaman@cryptotalks.social
     Apparently he got caught by the exif data on the photos.
     I'm tempted to believe it was intended as a joke in poor taste (pardon the pun).

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     tallship@obo.sh's status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 18:58:02 JST tallship

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     • Gabe

     @gabriel @shaman

     Ah yes... Y'know I was just going through settings in #Friendica, and noticed that you have to specifically change the default from stripping the EXIF data when posting media.

     For other platforms, you can use this on #Android - #Imagepipe from F-droid: