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Privacy Sanitizer v3.8

Remove GPS Location & GeoTags from Photos

Targeted geolocation scrubber. Strip latitude, longitude, altitude, and timestamp coordinates from JPEG, HEIC, and TIFF photos while preserving photographic color and image quality.

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Vacation_Beach_Resort.jpg warning GEOTAGGED EXIF 2.32

Original: 8.4 MB • Dimensions: 4032 × 3024 px • Color: Display P3 (ICC Embedded)

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Embedded Geolocation Telemetry

6 Active Tags

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Exact Physical Location Identified

This photo contains exact coordinates pinpointing where it was captured within ±3 meters of precision.

COORDINATE LOCK

Playa del Carmen, Mexico

±3.2m

Latitude 20.6296° N

Longitude 87.0739° W

Altitude 12.4 m

GPS Timestamp 18:42:15 UTC

Extracted Geotag Inventory

GPSLatitude / Ref 20° 37' 46.56" N

GPSLongitude / Ref 87° 4' 26.04" W

GPSAltitude / Ref 12.4 m Above Sea

GPSSpeed 0.18 km/h

GPSImgDirection / Bearing 134.2° (True North)

GPSDestBearing 135.0°

info Tag offset located at byte segment: 0x00004BE2 within EXIF APP1 Block.

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Wasm Engine

Scrub GPS Only (Recommended) Safe for Creators

Preserve camera settings & color profile. Keeps aperture, shutter speed, ISO, lens model, White Balance, and embedded ICC color profile. Only removes the GPS IFD pointer and coordinate markers.

check_circle 100% Original Pixels Preserved (Zero Compression)

Scrub All EXIF, IPTC & XMP Zero Trace

Complete metadata wipe. Strips device serial numbers, owner tags, timestamps, camera make/model, editing software history, and thumbnail caches.

tune Preserves raw pixel stream via JpegTran direct copy

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Lossless Binary Segment Replacement Direct ArrayBuffer pointer rewrite — zero re-encoding or artifacts

~14ms

verified Verification: Resulting file has 0 bytes of location metadata

HASH: e89a…3b4f

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Enterprise Data Loss Prevention & Privacy Scrubbing

Automate metadata sanitization on object storage pipelines (S3, Cloudflare R2, GCP buckets).

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Architectural Documentation

Client-Side Geolocation Sanitization Pipeline

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Lossless Binary Slicing vs Re-encoding

Conventional web scrubbers decode photos through an HTML5 element and export them back to JPEG. This introduces generational compression artifacts, degrades edge sharpness, and discards ICC color gamuts. ToolAcre manipulates raw ArrayBuffer bytes directly: it targets the 0x8825 GPS IFD tag pointer inside the APP1 segment and zeros the directory header in-place, preserving identical image pixel data.

TAG: 0x8825 ➔ 0x00000000 (NOP)

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The Dangers of Geotagged Photos Online

Modern smartphones embed high-accuracy satellite coordinates with centimeter-grade altitude into every snap. When photos are shared across private forums, classified boards, or messaging apps that do not strip EXIF, bad actors can correlate capture timestamps with GPS coordinates to map home addresses, daily routines, school locations, and vacant homes during holidays.

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Secondary GPS Leaks in XMP & MakerNotes

Naive EXIF wipers frequently fail because Apple iOS and Google Android duplicate geographical telemetry across multiple non-standard metadata blocks. ToolAcre scans Adobe XMP XML sidecars for exif:GPSLatitude schemas and sweeps proprietary vendor MakerNotes (e.g., Apple MakerNote SubIFD), ensuring no redundant geotags linger in secondary payload sectors.

rule Multi-Block Parser: EXIF + XMP + MakerNotes