Change Privacy Settings on Flickr

Recently Flickr increased the capacity of free plan to 1 terabyte. It’s great. Flickr is one of the best photos hosting web site. However, you need to review and change its default settings.

The default settings before change

Only myself can access to original file


Default settings for upload

Change it to myself

After the change of default upload.

How to remove exif tag

Each time we take a picture from a digital camera or smart phone, the exif tag and other photographic meta data are include in these pictures. These meta data contain info about your camera or your phone, GPS location,... To protects your privacy or reduce the picture size before publish the pictures on the web, you should remove exif data.

On Ubuntu: Using GPS Correlate
In the terminal:
To show the exif tags: gpscorrelate -s *.jpg
To remove the exif tag: gpscorrelate -r *.jpg

On Windows: Using a free software called IrfanView