With children engaging ever more on social media, sending and sharing images above all else, this becomes a critical risk. And once you lose control over a photo, you lose control over its metadata. While it’s sometimes useful to share location information with your photos-when sending within your family, for example.
MORE FROM FORBES Why You Should Stop Using Facebook Messenger In 2021 By Zak Doffman Another example of the disconnect between metadata and encryption that has made WhatsApp headlines in the last week. That change won’t fix this photos issue, though.
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The next major update to Android Messages will see it implement end-to-end encryption, putting it more on par with Apple’s iMessage. Ironically, this issue has arisen given Google’s rollout of RCS-the basic MMS functionality built over SMS should strip metadata as it resizes and compresses the images. You could of course screenshot the images you want too share and send the screenshots if that’s easier-these should not include location tags. So you will lose the usefulness of location tags in your gallery for those images you’ve edited-they won’t show up with the others taken in the same place. Unfortunately, the problem with deleting the location tag is that it’s permanent. If not, you can use an EXIF viewing and editing app from Play Store. The other option you have are to delete the location tags within your gallery app, if you have this option as in the image above. Gallery/Details/Option to delete location metadata Android Gallery Depending on the the way you choose to take and share an image will determine the level of protection you have. There are two ways you can send an image using Android Messages-you can attach them to a message, or you can use the camera feature within the Messages app itself. Put bluntly, you may think that you have stopped this information from being shared when you have not. And making sure that you don’t send your location data is harder than is should be. Your Messages app and your camera app have separate location permission settings: allow all the time allow only when in use or denied. This problem is made worse because of the way that settings work on Android. Anyone you share those images with, as well as anyone they share those images with, will be able to see the exact location where your photos were taken. While that’s obviously an issue, the arguably bigger issue is that if you use your Android Messages app to send your photos, then the metadata remains embedded in those files.
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