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METADATA IN PHOTOS ON WHATSAPP (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use xprivacylua to prevent whatsapp from having access to most of the possible software and hardware information to mitigate the fingerprint and now I'm also using the imagepipe to send any image through it.

However, the doubt came.

And the photos taken directly into the option within the application?

Can you still capture metadata?

Note: I use degoogle smartphone. And I do not speak English so excuse any fault.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

I use xprivacylua to prevent whatsapp from having access to most of the possible software and hardware information to mitigate the fingerprint

That's pretty useless given that WA has your phone number and is owned by Facebook who can identify you by just looking at when you receive messages. You're already identified, there's not use in hiding hardware information at that point and that's barely much of an identifier anyways.

Image metadata is mainly a concern when other people aren't supposed to know where they're taken. If you're sending them to friends and family who know where you are anyways, why bother.