feat(privacy): strip EXIF/XMP/IPTC from image uploads by default (#109)
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Metadata was only dropped as a side effect of opt-in compression, so a
phone photo carried its GPS fix, camera model and timestamp into the room
and the media store. utils/stripImageMetadata.ts now removes it at the
container level, without touching pixels: JPEG drops APP1/APP13/COM
(writing back a minimal EXIF holding only Orientation when it isn't 1,
so sideways-stored photos still display upright), PNG drops eXIf and the
text chunks XMP lives in, WebP drops EXIF/XMP and clears the VP8X flags.
Other types pass through.

Applied before encryption on every composer path (attach, paste, drop,
share target) and to user/room avatar picks; GIF upload is excluded.
Setting → General → Privacy "Remove Photo Metadata Before Sending",
default on. The upload card says "Photo metadata removed".

Unit tests on generated fixtures with a GPS IFD (JPEG orientation 6,
JPEG + comment, PNG with eXIf + XMP, WebP with EXIF); verified end to
end: the bytes stored by Synapse decode fine and carry only Orientation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PPmy3tPq869XDW4njjVaKA
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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@@ -382,6 +382,14 @@ export function UploadCardRenderer({
/>
)}
<CompressionCheckbox fileItem={fileItem} metadata={metadata} setMetadata={setMetadata} />
{metadata.metadataStripped && (
<Box alignItems="Center" gap="100" style={{ marginTop: config.space.S100 }}>
<Icon size="50" src={Icons.Shield} style={{ color: color.Success.Main }} />
<Text size="T200" priority="300">
Photo metadata removed (location, camera, time)
</Text>
</Box>
)}
{upload.status === UploadStatus.Idle && !fileSizeExceeded && (
<UploadCardProgress sentBytes={0} totalBytes={file.size} />
)}