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Stripping out geo-location data on upload

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Dan Ducat

Hello

I am using the upload widget to allow web site users to upload photos to Cloudinary.  One thing I have noticed is that the original photo that gets uploaded still contains the geo-location exif data in it.  However, when I request a rendered version of the photo, that information is automatically removed.

Is there a way for me to strip off that information at the time of upload, so that even the original image in Cloudinarydoes not have that info?  I want to make sure I am protecting the privacy of image uploads.  Unfortunately, right now, with a little URL hacking, a viewer can get at the original image in Cloudinary, location data and all.

Can I just strip that out at the point of upload?  I looked through the online documentation for the upload widget, and am not seeing that.

Thanks

Dan

 

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    Ido
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    Hi Dan

     

    Cloudinary's default behavior is to strip all metadata from the image once any transformation is performed.

    If you want to remove an image metadata upon upload, you could use an incoming transformation and the metadata would automatically be stripped.

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