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What happens to my photographs when I upload them?

They are rebuilt rather than stored as supplied. Each image is decoded and re-encoded from raw pixels, which discards everything wrapped around the picture data: GPS coordinates, camera and device identifiers, colour profiles and anything else appended to the file.

Phone photographs routinely record exactly where they were taken, so this matters. Each approved photograph is then produced in several sizes and formats, and one reduced master copy is kept privately for moderation. The master is never served publicly.