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What is this photo carrying?

Most photos from a phone or camera embed far more than the picture. Drop one in to see it.

Drop a photo here

It is read in this tab and never uploaded.

How it works

A photo taken on a phone can carry the exact location it was taken, the camera or phone serial number and the time, and some carry a hidden second picture. CLOAK shows everything a photo is carrying, strips it, and lets you black out anything in the frame, such as a face, a number plate or a house number, so the redaction is burned into the pixels. Posting to a social network does not always remove this data.

Doing this often? The OBSCURA Sovereign Suite takes the location, names, comments and history out of a whole folder of photos, documents and PDFs in one go, on your own computer. On its own, US$4 a month; with everything else, US$9 a month or US$79 a year. 7 days free.

Just want to check a photo without editing it? Use the photo metadata checker.