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Catching Criminals with Exif Metadata from Digital Photos

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Steve Wilding

Exif Metadata extracted from Digital Photo

We all know that criminals aren’t always that bright. Sometimes they like to record themselves or take memento photos during the commission of a crime to glorify their achievement. What they are unaware of is that many modern digital cameras and smartphones also record metadata such as information about their camera, the camera settings, location, date and time the image was captured. This metadata can obviously be invaluable to investigators if they are able to track down criminals by identifying when and where a photo was taken, and which device captured the moment.

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Posted in Computers, Photography | Tagged exif, geodata, geotagging, JIEDA, metadata

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