Preserve Your Photographic Privacy with JPEG & PNG Stripper

Imagine publishing your home address on the company Web site. Or running an online ad that includes a photo of your kids -- or even worse, someone for whom you don't have a signed model release. None of those things sound like good ideas, but you risk them every time you upload a photo to the Web, thanks to the metadata embedded in the image. One solution: Use JPEG & PNG Stripper to remove unwanted photo metadata.

JPEG & PNG Stripper is a free program that does just what it claims. It removes all metadata, including personal identifiable information like tags and keywords, GPS location data, unedited thumbnails, and other personal photographer information. Just drag any photos you want to clean into the program window, and the updates happen instantly. All that's left behind is the filename.

Removing metadata from your photos is great, but don't forget that you might also want to do the same for your documents before you share those, too. Not long ago, Rick explained one way to strip private data from documents.

One word of warning about JPEG & PNG Stripper: You might want to work on copies of the photos, not the originals. The updates happen as soon as you drag and drop, and there is no Undo. [Via AppScout]