How to PROTECT your photos (4 simple steps)

[@AllThingsSecured]

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[@bite-sizedshorts9635]

My photos don't have the GPS location, as there is no GPS in my camera. The original time is whatever I set the camera to, so I can fudge on that, if it ever occurred to me to do it. The other stuff is also missing by the time I upload a photo. I always edit photos and resave without the information when I want to upload. They almost always need to be cropped or exposure corrected. People need to be better informed. I have a relative who actually thinks "backing up" her photos on Facebook is a good thing. She deletes her photos, then loses her phone and can't get into her FB account and has to make another one. Luckily for her, I downloaded all her photos from all of those FB accounts so she can have them back in the future.

[@magnanorth4713]

I went to purchase delete me, it sounds great. But it is only for US. Do you know a source Canadians can use please? 😄

[@hunter19884]

You can also take a screenshot of a picture before posting any photo online. Screenshot doesn't include any metadata of a traditional photo. The only information it can reveal is the time the screenshot was taken. I have been doing this for years. Uploading a picture to a metadata remover site or app then downloading is time consuming.

[@AllThingsSecured]

This is true, although a screenshot of a photo degrades the quality significantly. It's much easier to just strip the EXIF data on the device before sharing or publishing. No need to upload to a site or app.

[@iansilver4853]

I was about to post the same thing. Quick and easy.

[@a.s.3904]

I had never considered most of this. Thanks for the video and tips!

[@AllThingsSecured]

Glad it was helpful!

[@cjc363636]

I like the idea of an alternate, 'locked-down' photo app next to the built in 'open' photo app on a phone. I use browsers that way on my mac - 'open' browsers for streaming and when I want to be seen, and a search/private one locked to a split-tunnel VPN for when I don't want marketers to know I have itchy foot issues. I don't get the creepy side-ads that match past search queries any longer.

[@AllThingsSecured]

Yea, I like how you've set up your browsers.

[@ericapelz260]

You can also use an app like syncthing to synch photos to your own PC.

[@FARFIG42069]

I like your take on the information.Stay vigilant my friend 🥶🤯👽

[@AllThingsSecured]

Thanks 🙏

[@jippalippa]

I have gotten back into polaroids. No exif data there ;)

[@AllThingsSecured]

Ha! Definitely not.

[@ElinWinblad]

Just fingerprints 😅

[@AuricBlue]

Do screenshots taken on your device and then added to your photo library also carry specific identifying exif data? Also when creating a video, before uploading the video to youtube or other sites, can people read the gps location data of where your youtube video was uploaded from? Thanks for the tips!

[@AllThingsSecured]

Every single photo has EXIF data, it's just a matter of what kind of data is present there. A screenshot won't have GPS data, I don't believe, but it will have other data present. As for KZbin, if you're uploading a video straight from your device, KZbin will have access to the GPS location data but they will strip it before publishing it on their platform.

[@HIDlarissaTERRY]

Great! 🙏

[@2rx_bni]

Glad to hear someone talking about XCIF data. I run everything through GIMP first usually. Some places it's not as big a deal, but for things like children and pets it's really important to keep their location private. You never know who's looking. Edit: Apple is partnering with OpenAI. I'm actively looking to get an e-Ink phone and go back to using an actual camera. I'm over it. Apple is an ad company, end of day, they're just stealth about it. Don't trust them nor Google/Alphabet either.

[@AllThingsSecured]

Thanks for sharing!

[@rjain1993]

🔥❤️‍🔥👍🏻 Thank You For Telling About Encamera App , i’ll Check It Out Already Follow Other Tips Don’t Share Travel Photos Right Away , Return Home 1st Review Location & Written Data On Photo Be Careful What You Share , Where You Share etc Just Sometimes Lazy To Remove Location Data From Native Camera App

[@AllThingsSecured]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@apocalypse487]

I have Adobe bridge (I believe this is free). I can delete the information if I want to delete anything. If I upload anything, I process the images first to remove the data. Proton syncs pictures from a folder now.

[@AllThingsSecured]

Perfect. Well done 👍🏻

[@Andre-qo5ek]

we need to really push for the default for all these services and apps are secure and private. with options to share as you want...the corps will probably jsut penalize us with high costs .. idk...

[@AllThingsSecured]

Yea, privacy by default would be nice…

[@rarefruit2320]

The problem is we all have to tell the companies and Congress, not just the comment section on KZbin.

[@MountainMan7.62x39]

Great content, as always.

[@AllThingsSecured]

Thanks so much for the kind words!

[@Someuser391]

I'm using Open Camera on Android. It has a setting where you can turn off EXIF-data.

[@AllThingsSecured]

👍🏻👍🏻🙌

[@aceiowmydoraph]

While watching this video I went to see exif data on my phone. Let me make it clear first I don't usually update all the apps and I have google services disabled which I can. But only enable for 5/10min when I need it for banking apps just the play service. I only update what I use and the foss apps. Guess what I found all my photos were analyzed, who the persons are, in which pics. I can't remember if I had updated Samsung gallery at all. Also I use next dns and blocked lots of dns entries which my phone was querying before and now I am surprised how it happened.

[@KevinTea]

Thank you, just bought Proshot for Android as no background data shared

[@AllThingsSecured]

Great.

[@Morese56]

Ok I just downloaded your checklist and that in itself seems complicated. Now is this approach more for business or personal? I get it that we need to keep our personal secure but how much time in a day does anyone have time to devote to this? I know I’m probably screwing myself by saying this. Security we have or we don’t. Where do we draw the line. I think those check list need to be simplified? Like life itself a roll of the dice. Peace

[@Snicker433]

I actually auto sync backup all my photos to my own Immich server I run. It feels exactly like Google photos.

[@claudejackson8943]

Hey off topic but what is your take on NFC payment rings and smartwatches? Are they safe?

[@AllThingsSecured]

Good question. I’m not sure - I need to do more research.

[@AyameKaily]

Please can you teach us how to protect our photos from AI manipulation? Some pleople are using others people's photos and manipulating using AI to do whatever they want to. Is there any way we can protect our photos from this type of thing before posting?

[@ShadowMan717]

Encamera is not bad but no option for portraits. Is there any private camera app with portrait modes?

[@AllThingsSecured]

Hmm...interesting request. I wonder if you brought that up with them if they could make that a new feature for future updates.

[@JacobRoberts-dn8gn]

Hey Josh, did you pay for the encamera app? I downloaded it today and was saddened to see there’s a limit to how many photos you can have with the free version 😢 (Also the app seems pretty buggy)

[@AllThingsSecured]

Yes, I had a paid version to test it out. What bugs did you run into?

[@JacobRoberts-dn8gn]

@@AllThingsSecured it just got extremely sluggish after I put 20 pictures and videos in. But it could be my extremely old phone, so I’m not too worried about

[@AshGreen359]

I'm sure these settings make all the deference, yeah right. And incognito works too, sure

[@AllThingsSecured]

Every little step is worth taking IMO.

[@worstyasuo]

Hey Josh, just wanted to ask What do you think about grapheneos? Will you make a video about alternate android systems that care about security and privacy?

[@AllThingsSecured]

Yes, I will. I just don't like being a slave to KZbin, so I tend to be a little slow.

[@worstyasuo]

@@AllThingsSecured great, looking forward to it!

[@user-xg1it4ok2h]

I someone looks at my items for sale and wants more pictures i ad the new picture to my post not sending it to the potential customer !

[@AllThingsSecured]

That's probably a good practice, but sometimes we forget. It was just an example.

[@Mr.X.I.I]

Can I Actually do this Take a google pixel and degoogle it put graphene take photos that the location and the photos might be saved And please do correct/suggest me the better way what else can I do instead of what I mentioned above !

[@AllThingsSecured]

Yes, that is possible. I'm still testing it myself.

[@Mr.X.I.I]

@@AllThingsSecured thanks ;)

[@1Three8Fiver]

Is GrapheneOS or GOS getting censored here?

[@AllThingsSecured]

Censored? If you mean censored by me, then no. It’s just not a mainstream option to say “so go get rid of your current phone, buy a whole new phone, flash it, and THEN get some privacy”.

[@1Three8Fiver]

No worries and no wouldn't be recommending that appreciate how you work and who your audience is by how you approach things. Your content is brilliant for sharing with family/friends as a gateway to good practices. Only reason I became puzzled is I'd left more than 1 comment and only those including the OS that provided the app resulted in them disappearing.🤷‍♂️

[@rarefruit2320]

@@1Three8FiverKZbin has recently been deleting most of my comments. They must have a new massive ai system. I’ve always made fun of tyrants so nothing I post is new to me or them. Will this one show up? Idk 🤷

[@James-mh8zd]

I paid for delete me for a year. I received their reports. The reports read nothing ever? They didn’t delete anything.

[@AllThingsSecured]

I’d be surprised if that were the case. Log into your account and take a deeper look.

[@louishurr393]

You didn’t really cover on device scanning. There’s no point in encrypting your photos if Apple has machine learning built into the hardware to scan the photos before they’re encrypted. I don’t know that this is as much of a huge threat yet, but it will be. It’s the sneaky little secret that nobody really talks about.

[@AllThingsSecured]

I did talk about it a bit. On-device analysis happens when we use the native apps, but that's why I mentioned using something like Encamera or other 3rd party apps that bypass this built-in process.

[@MorbidGod391]

3:03 so what your saying is we have been telling AI how to beat that security measure

[@AllThingsSecured]

100% yes.

[@SockMonkeyofcourse]

Or maybe just go back to using a phone as only a phone?

[@AllThingsSecured]

Ha! Good luck with that. It’s hard!

[@MorbidGod391]

4:38 they didn’t delete you from KZbin. 😂😂😂😂

[@AllThingsSecured]

No, they definitely can't do that ;)

[@RhysGaiam]

Proton sucks and the other ones you mentioned 🧐 who owes those companies?

[@AllThingsSecured]

Why should I try to answer that question when you’ve already decided that they suck?

[@AnthoJoh]

For Samsung this is what I do, these phones have an encrypted area already on the phone called Secure Folder, used to be called Knox. You can keep files in there, but you can also run apps from within there. So I have a camera app in this secure area and 1 outside of it. So the camera app in the secure area, all photos taken will be kept in the secure area. You can easily move apps and files in and out of the secure area. Best of all doesnt cost a thing. :-)

[@hunter19884]

But the camera app of the secure folder doesn't give you the option to turn metadata off. If you run an email or social media app in secure folder then upload those photos, your metadata will still be shared.

[@AnthoJoh]

@@hunter19884 Sure it does, I have the same options on the app in or out of the secure folder.

[@AllThingsSecured]

Very interesting. I don't use a Samsung, so this was helpful to know.

[@captainofouterspace]

​@@hunter19884On my Samsung I just go to the Camera app permissions and set the Location permission to Not Allowed

[@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth]

To apple specific.

[@AllThingsSecured]

Kind of. I’m obviously more of an Apple user, but much of the same issues (and solutions) apply to Android. And I tried to say as much.

[@AntiCitizen_1]

Why don’t you do an entire video demonstrating how Delete Me works, so we have a window into how it all works out for the user instead of just a brief description from you

[@AllThingsSecured]

I have, and I linked to it on the end screen and I believe in the description.

[@AntiCitizen_1]

@@AllThingsSecured I know lol I wrote this too soon and didn’t delete lol thank you 🙏 sorry

[@2rx_bni]

I literally have Delete Me. You don't DO anything. You thpe in your info, leave it alone and come back when they tell you there's a new report. That's it. I've had it for two years. It works.