Scrub Those Photos

If you’re going to take photos anywhere—outside a clinic, at a protest, or in your own dang house—it’s going to come with a digital trail of its own: details like when and where a photo was taken, and who was snapping said photo, are all part of the metadata that comes packaged with your online images. Naturally, bad actors can use this intel to track you down. If you’d rather purge these pictures before they gets into the wrong hands, there’s a bunch of tools that can help you do it. ExifTool, for example, is a free, open-source option for photos on your desktop, Metapho is great for iOS pics, and Scrambled Exif is built for Android.