---
title: "JavaScript and Photos: Read, Edit, and Erase Location and Other Exif Metadata"
description: "Do detective work and protect your privacy by using JavaScript to read, alter, and erase the Exif metadata that your phone writes into every photo."
authors:
  - name: "Joey deVilla"
    url: "https://auth0.com/blog/authors/joey-devilla/"
date: "Mar 26, 2021"
category: "Developers,Tutorial,JavaScript"
tags: ["javascript", "exif", "metadata", "privacy", "images-process"]
url: "https://auth0.com/blog/read-edit-exif-metadata-in-photos-with-javascript/"
---

# JavaScript and Photos: Read, Edit, and Erase Location and Other Exif Metadata

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