@bruhprivacy@mastodon.social According to Wikipedia
Metadata is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data, such as the text of a message or the image itself.

Which means, for easy example. If you take a picture from your device. There will be some informations inside that image called EXIF(Exchangeable image file format), such as your location, your model device, your timestamp and so on.

These kind of informations are also can threatening your privacy on internet. Especially if you are a journalist or activist who is taking refuge from threats.

How so?

You can read full article about it https://www.eyerys.com/articles/timeline/john-mcafee-caught-because-his-photo-had-his-location-data-embedded-it

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