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How concerned are you of watermarks in videos or images you share? (lemy.lol)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I think it is possible to embed invisible information into videos and images. This way peopple could track where you got an image from, the source from which you copied it, and people who copy your image to share it again. https://github.com/ShieldMnt/invisible-watermark

Services like youtube or twitter could embed such watermarks into content they serve to specific users without them knowing; Smartphone-cameras could mark images in secret.

I guess blurring, rotating or dithering the image could destroy watermarks. Or maybe just sharing a screenshot of an image instead of the original image. Format conversions may help too.

Keywords: digital-watermarking. tracking.

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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

It's definitely possible. I've heard the film industry does do this with theatrical releases so they can determine what theater a copy came from (and determine the seat it was recorded from by the angle). I don't really share images/video anonymously though, so don't think about it much. When I rarely do, I try to check for and strip metadata.

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