
The situation may change in the future as the automatic removal of EXIF data from photos by Facebook has been successfully challenged under copyright law. Twitter also do this, and Instagram to an extent, but some other social media don’t. They also strip out the IPTC information that professional photographers insert (eg on your wedding photos). The problem is you can’t rely on social media to automatically remove location data from photos you post online.Ĭurrently Facebook automatically strips out the EXIF information (that contains location coordinates) from uploaded photos.
