What I do is to run the exiftool to strip all the metadata from the image. Next, I check if there are any identifying details in the image like landmarks or background details (e.g. stuff on my whiteboard). And finally I check for the unwanted reflections or for the setup that could be recognised outside the community I share the photo with. Last but not least, I never share a photo in more than one place.
I don’t upload photos anywhere public for this reason. For screenshots I just strip the exif data, and if it’s a screenshot that goes from edge to edge of a screen, I resize it so as to not give away info on the size of my screen. I also don’t share the same image in multiple places. If I have any kind of custom theming (fonts or colours) in a screenshot I also usually change it to something more generic, unless the point of the screenshot itself is to showcase the theming.
I’m not too fussed about those things tbh. If anyone really wanted to doxx me on here they could do that regardless of any images.
I wouldn’t post any pictures of myself to publicly available websites, though; even the one I use on facebook is years old.
I don’t upload photos of myself or my environment to public websites. The only people online who have seen me are two close friends on Discord.
When uploading my art I admit I’m somewhat paranoid about it since my art has been stolen once already, and I like to keep the files associated with my art archived just prior to uploading as a point of reference.
Which means your two close friends & the corporate Discord data harvester.
With friends I can at least tell them to use a privacy-respecting or self hosted option, but I still don’t understand how businesses actively prefer US-based, proprietary services such as Google Meet for meetings. Do they really think Google & others aren’t record & training on their private business meeting data?
I open the picture on my computer, then screenshot it before uploading.
That removes any association with the original picture without relying on any exif stripping that might miss a hash or weird embedded info.
Now it simply has the metadata from your home conputer.
Print it out, scan it. Screenshot again. Post it from behind 7 proxies
Reflections are a big one that is easily overlooked. I typically stare at a picture for a couple minutes looking for tiny reflections that some psychopath on the internet could enhance and glean identity from. I shut geo location on my pictures off so that I don’t have to worry about that, but I recently turned it back on. How do you run that tool on Android?
Sounds perfectly sensible.
I last uploaded my photo on internet when avengers civil war came out.
hey, that’s the same time I stopped sharing new content, though it took 4 more years before I officially deleted my FB account. By that point i was checking it only once every three months.
What’s on the image? Can you accept to talk about it with your boss?
There is a big difference between a photo of Dr OP giving an invited seminar about some advanced topic, and OP wearing a German WW2 outfit “for Carnaval”
I used to be; I am becoming more and more complacent by the day. How can I motivate myself to get back on track?
Piss off a basement dweller who makes it his mission to find you in real life and destroy you. That’ll definitely ramp up your precautions again.
Not at all. Here, my first ever face reveal.
any images I upload are either already found online or if they are images I took scrubbed of location information in the metadata plus I don’t put my face online. my face is on my fb page and a few pictures have my face in them but as far as I’m aware there’s less than 10 pictures of my face online.
what’s the last step do for you?
You don’t upload pictures because you don’t want to be tracked.
I don’t upload pictures because no one wants to track me.
We are different.
