If you are one of those paranoid people who get on your nerves when they know the different ways in which your cell phone spies on you, we recommend that you do not continue reading, since it is possible that you are facing a horror story.
In case you did not know, through a simple photograph you can obtain all kinds of data both about the device and the place where it was made. In fact, a simple image taken on the street in our neighborhood may include personal information that we do not know. It is not even necessary to open the photograph in question.
With this example you can imagine how far the power of metadata reaches. These can bring with them data about the form and even the time at which the capture was made, but do not believe yourself by any means that to reveal them you have to be a hacker or anything like that. In fact, you can do it yourself through your own smartphone.
Simple and easy
That said, it is not necessary to have computer skills or anything like that to get the information from the terminal and the image in question. The reality is that it is quite simple and there is no complication for it.
All you have to do is access your smartphone’s gallery, either your own by default or with Google Photos. When selecting any image you will find various options at the bottom of the screen. Click on the information or details icon to access the EXIF data , which shows us the specific phone that has taken the photograph, as well as the parameters used for it, that is, the aperture of the diaphragm, the ISO and even if it is has used flash for it. A little further up you can also take a look at the exact day and time the capture took place.
In the event that your mobile does not have this option, there is the possibility of verifying this with any other photo you have on the device and even on the computer . In the latter case, you just have to right click and click on properties. Once inside, go to the details tab, where you will find practically everything that can be known about that image.
Is it possible to remove them?
Except death, everything has a solution in this life and this problem was not going to be less. The easiest way to remove the location of the images is to enter the Google Photos service, since it has an option to completely remove the location of the images. You just have to select it and slide up to display the menu that includes the metadata. Just by tapping the ‘Remove’ button the position will be deleted.
Some mobiles from specific manufacturers, such as Xiaomi, have at their disposal a simple way to erase the data of the captures before sending them to another user. The process is once again easy to execute, since all you have to do is enter the ‘Gallery’. Then click on the three points in the upper right area and access the ‘Settings’. Scroll down a bit until you find the ‘Safe sharing’ section , where you can disable the device from sharing metadata.
Your terminal may have a similar alternative, so it’s just a matter of taking a look at this section of the gallery and see if you can prevent your personal information from being shown.
