When you take pictures with a digital camera, or worse, with a smartphone, these damn smart, sensor-packed devices add a fairly significant amount of information to your photos: metadata. When sharing your photos online, it is highly recommended to remove all or part of this metadata.
In fact, this information also known as EXIF data (Exchangeable image file format) cover a wide range of data that is sometimes inconvenient from a data point of view. protection of your personal data.
It includes information such as the date and time of the photo, data specific to the device that took the photo (make, model, name of the device, orientation, aperture, focal length, etc.) and also geographic information from the device's GPS.
It is particularly geographic data that can prove to be the most sensitive if you share your photos on the web... For example, it can be very easy to find your address from the GPS coordinates of photos.
This is why removing metadata from a photo is a key step before sharing it on the Internet!
Remove EXIF data from your photos with EXIF Remover
There are many software programs that can clean up your metadata, but if you don't want to install anything for occasional use, the best solution is to use an online tool.
EXIF Remover is part of a suite of free tools called Coding.Tools and allows you to remove metadata from your photos.
To use it is very simple, go to the tool's website and drag your photos into the area provided for this purpose. It is possible to process up to 20 images at the same time.
It only takes a few seconds to process your images and you can then download them one by one or together in a ZIP archive.
Please note that all your photos are deleted from Coding.tools servers after an hour.
On the same site, the EXIF Viewer tool allows you to view all the EXIF data of your images.
