A business owner who operates from a home address and sends a client a photograph has likely done more than share an image. Consumer smartphones and digital cameras embed location data into image files at the moment of capture. That data travels inside the file, attached to the pixel content, invisible in the preview but accessible in the file properties. The recipient of the photo receives both.
The location embedded in an image taken at a home office is the home office coordinates. Not a general area. Not a city. A specific latitude and longitude that, cross-referenced against mapping data, resolves to a street address. When that image is transmitted as a business document, a proposal attachment, or a product photograph, the coordinates are transmitted with it.
What happens to that data after delivery depends on the recipient. It may sit in an inbox indefinitely. It may be processed by an automated system that logs attachment metadata. It may be pulled by a data aggregator who has indexed every message thread the recipient's platform has ever processed. The small business owner made a routine business communication. The communication produced a location record.
Removing location data from an image file after the fact does not address the architecture that produced it. The sterilization has to happen at the source before the file is created.
How many photos have left your device with your home address inside them?
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