Dark web drug sellers shutter location-tracking EXIF data from photos

Criminals have started to aggressively erase EXIF metadata from their photos to make it harder for authorities to locate them, Harvard University students Paul Lisker and Michael Rose find.

Unbeknownst to most, digital cameras and smartphones that shoot in JPG or TIFF formats write information on where a photograph was taken, when, and the camera used, every time the virtual shutter opens. That data is written in the “exchangeable image file format” (EXIF) standard.

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