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Location metadata is silent until it is catastrophic.
Teams researching Remove All Location Data usually discover GPS traces, altitude fields, or body serial data riding along with benign tags. permanently remove all location data from photos windows. Nobody wants to eyeball ten thousand thumbnails manually.
Where tooling usually breaks
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Every browser-based scrubber is a new vendor relationship for sensitive pixels. Windows 11 workstations already hold the files—processing should stay under your policy boundary.
What leaks by default
GPSPosition GPSAltitude BodySerialNumber LensMake / LensModel Software tag fingerprints MetaForge: strip locally in batch