Metadata: Your File’s Hidden DNA and You

Backblaze Blog – 2.6.20

The files you use every day on your Mac or PC, whether at home or at work, carry around a slew of hidden data that can be incredibly useful to you… or problematically revealing to others. For example, the image in the header reveals latitude and longitude details in an iPhone photo that you could use to organize the photo along with others taken in the same place. But anyone else can access the same data and enter it directly into Google Maps to discover exactly where that picture was taken! Not quite as useful.

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