Practical, threat-aware education
Understand what an image can reveal, choose the right cleaning or redaction method, and build a safer sharing routine.
Start here · 7 min
A practical guide to location, time, device, ownership, editing, preview, and technical fields stored alongside image pixels.
Read the guideTravelers, parents, sellers, and privacy reviewers · 8 min
Understand EXIF GPS latitude, longitude, hemisphere references, altitude, direction, and why coordinates can be surprisingly precise.
Read guide →People preparing a photo for public sharing · 6 min
A step-by-step workflow for checking the original file, understanding GPS findings, cleaning a copy, and verifying the result.
Read guide →Photographers, editors, publishers, and developers · 9 min
Learn what the three major photo metadata families are for, where privacy-sensitive values appear, and why a cleaner must check all of them.
Read guide →Anyone cleaning phone photos · 6 min
How EXIF orientation works, why indiscriminate metadata removal can turn a phone photo sideways, and two safe cleaning strategies.
Read guide →Support teams, employees, teachers, and creators · 8 min
A practical checklist for removing visible secrets, avoiding reversible overlays, flattening the export, and verifying the final image.
Read guide →Anyone hiding visible information · 7 min
Why blur and pixelation are useful visual effects but solid flattened masks are safer for text, codes, identifiers, and other secrets.
Read guide →People editing or redacting JPEG photos · 7 min
Why a JPEG can contain a second preview image, how stale thumbnails survive careless edits, and why redacted exports must be flattened and rescanned.
Read guide →Marketplace sellers and small businesses · 8 min
Protect home locations, shipping labels, serial numbers, reflections, and routines when photographing items for a public listing.
Read guide →Parents and caregivers · 7 min
A calm, practical review of location, school details, routines, names, uniforms, documents, and audience before sharing family photos.
Read guide →Journalists, researchers, and activists · 10 min
A threat-aware workflow for source protection, location review, device identifiers, visual clues, derivatives, and secure handoff.
Read guide →Privacy-conscious users and web developers · 9 min
How File and Blob APIs, ArrayBuffer parsing, canvas rendering, Web Workers, object URLs, and browser-generated downloads can transform images without an upload endpoint.
Read guide →