On 10/28/2014 05:54 PM, A. Beck. wrote:

But ... how much of that personal EXIF information is retained by
the web site (and used for their possibly nefarious purposes)?

Dude, a few years ago nobody would have thought it possible (or even
constitutional) in the western world that social media and cloud
services treat your data as their property, that postal service retain
every sender/recipient address, that secret services read and store all
your e-mails, passwords and browsing profiles. And yet, we were shocked
to learn that all this is common practice today.

So you just have to assume that every bit of information that leaves
your local network is intercepted, stored and evaluated. If it is
encrypted it is either decrypted today, or stored for decryption in the
future.

Sorry to break the news to you.