Your photos might include information of the exact location and time of the photo taken, your photo/camera models etc. Companies, governments, or someone with bad intentions can use such information for their benefits against you. This can easily be accessed by AI as well.
On Windows 11:
- Right-click on the file
- Properties
- Details
- Remove properties and personal information
Lots of people don’t care, but I guess this could be useful for some of you.
I’ve always been curious how one could verify that all that exif data was certainly removed fully
There are EXIF data viewers. You can just look at it. ExifTool and so forth. You can also use it to remove such data if you don’t trust Windows to do it for you.
At least a subset of EXIF data can be viewed in Windows Explorer in your file properties. Technically any device or app can store any custom field within the EXIF data so long as it fits within the data size limitations, so it’s certainly possible there could be gumpf in there that Explorer won’t display.
I trust windows about as much as every kgb employee