Short answer: image metadata carries descriptive, technical, and sometimes sensitive context alongside pixels; in a logistics crop pipeline, preserve only fields you can justify, strip GPS coordinates by default, and make that policy testable before files reach a cache. An image can look harmles...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/rhettmurray8263/image-metadata-what-it-carries-privacy-and-gps-coordinates-explained-3o6d)