A photo from the backyard, the school pickup line, or a birthday party at home is exactly the kind of image parents share most — and exactly the kind of image where embedded GPS data is most sensitive, because it repeatedly ties a specific child to a specific place: home, school, a regular routine.
Any single geotagged photo reveals one location, one moment. The real pattern emerges over dozens of photos posted over months or years — home turns up again and again, so does the same school building, the same park. None of that requires anything sophisticated to piece together; it's sitting in the metadata of ordinary, otherwise harmless photos.
Major social platforms often strip metadata automatically on upload, which helps. The gaps show up elsewhere: private family blogs, group chats and messaging apps that don't scrub metadata from file-style attachments, photo book or printing services, and school or team websites that post photos parents submit directly. None of these can be assumed to strip anything.
Metadata is only one channel. Visible details in the photo itself — a house number, a school crest, a street sign — carry information too, but that's a separate consideration from what a metadata tool can fix; it comes down to what's actually visible in the frame.
AiEraser's Remove mode strips GPS and the rest of a photo's embedded metadata in your browser, with nothing uploaded — a quick step to build into however you already share family photos.