Glossary

IPTC metadata

IPTC metadata is often used by photographers, newsrooms, and media libraries to store captions, credits, and keywords.

It can expose author, copyright, location, source, and editorial notes.

Image privacy tools should scan IPTC separately from EXIF.

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