PC World has a great article on how to protect your privacy when sharing photographs online.

You probably know that you can find the date and time taken, date modified, and exposure information in your photo’s metadata. You might also know that your photo can tell you what make and model camera you used, and details about the lens and flash. But you might also be storing your name, your home address (see “Photos That Know Where they Were Taken”), and other private or potentially embarrassing information in those files as well, all of which can be seen if you post our photos online. [...]

You can remove all of a photo’s metadata using nothing more than Windows itself, if you have Vista. Just go back to the Details tab of the Properties dialog we discussed earlier. At the bottom of the window, you should see a link that says Remove Properties and Personal Information. Click it and all the metadata will be stripped away from the photo. [...]

If you don’t have Vista, or you’re looking for an even easier metadata removal method, try a program like JPEG & PNG Stripper.

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