Facebook saveguarding metadata interpreted as spying
A number of alarmist articles, tweets and posts have been published in July on how “Facebook Embeds ‘Hidden Codes’ To Track Who Sees And Shares Your Photos“.
Read article in FORBES here …
IPTC responds …
Following these “very speculative articles .. in the vein of “Facebook is tracking your Images” and such” IPTC members, Michael Steidl, Brendan Quinn and David Riecks have summarized their findings in “What Facebook Does With Your Photo Metadata“
“IPTC tests showed when a Facebook member uploads an image to the Facebook system it removes a lot of fields, keeps only a few related to rights and replaces or adds values to the Job Id and the Instructions fields. The role of these values is not publicly documented by Facebook, so they are currently the subject of significant speculation.”
