# Image metadata stripping for privacy

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/image-metadata-stripping-for-privacy/33175>\
**Category:** Using Ghost\
**Created:** [October 2, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/image-metadata-stripping-for-privacy/33175 "2022-10-02T14:24:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![aquasp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@aquasp](https://forum.ghost.org/u/aquasp)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/image-metadata-stripping-for-privacy/33175/1 "2022-10-02T14:24:50Z")

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Hi Guys,

Is there any way to strip the metadata from the image to have more privacy?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![aquasp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@aquasp](https://forum.ghost.org/u/aquasp)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2022, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/image-metadata-stripping-for-privacy/33175/2 "2022-10-02T14:26:50Z")

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Perhaps that is actually done by default?

> [@Uploaded Images colour profile stripped](https://forum.ghost.org/t/uploaded-images-colour-profile-stripped/4497/5):
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> It’s actually extremely critical to strip meta data by default. Cameras and browsers both have a concept of orientation meta data, but nobody has standardised or agreed on how that should be implemented or handled, so 50% of the images get rotated 90 degrees and displayed in the wrong orientation by the browser - which is a nightmare that affects the majority of all users and inconveniences them. Additionally photo meta data has a very unfortunate habit of leaking private user information incl…