[FreezerburnV]

If it makes good photos, and the extra information isn’t being harvested to track you like Facebook would do, what does it matter what it’s actually doing under the hood? It probably is doing a lot of that because it can condense all that extra information into a picture that looks better to humans. But the tech of how it reaches that really shouldn’t matter or be creepy, it’s just processing a bunch of pixels to make something look nice. Just like your mirrorless camera, but with more frames put together to make the final result.

[jobigoud]

An example is, if the extra data is retained to improve post-processing capabilities, for example refocusing or a slight change in perspective, then you could inadvertently share files with more information than you think they contain. Remember the story of people cropping out their naked bottom half just to have it plain in the exif thumbnail.

[ruminasean]

This is definitely one example of my thinking.