Read this if you use Facebook

[David Barnes]

https://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&item=5949510996535111684&type=member&gid=2056064&trk=eml-b2_anet_digest-hero-4-hero-disc-disc-0&midToken=AQFVAHcluY6EdA&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=0nHckyvfXKMSw1

[Alan Graham]

That's a Linkedin link, don't have that...

[David Barnes]

 Facebook stripping meta-data from images - making it very easy to steal your photos.

Gary Scott Photographer / Network Telecom Technician Top Contributor

I'm surprised I haven't heard more of this from photographers. I hear about the problems in the new EULA, but has anyone noticed the lack of meta-data in the images uploaded to Facebook? I can go to anyone's photos and download one in whatever resolution they have used and there is NO meta-data in the image (for those of you who don't know, that's data about the camera, the copyright information you may have put in it, the keywords, etc).

So, someone downloading my image can then re-post it anywhere they want without any reference to me (except a watermark of course). That doesn't sound right at all and is a major copyright infringement aided by Facebook policy.

I understand that it may be stripped for privacy concerns - some folks were uploading pictures of their kids that contained GPS, date and time data making it easy to locate them - OK, that's a good move. But for photographers who embed copyright information, it strips all reference to us as the photographer - and copyright holder!

I use LensTag to track my gear and the app has a great feature where it automatically discovers some of the sites where my images are posted - but only if it has the camera serial number in the metadata. Facebook NEVER shows up in this list.