This folder is named in the style of xfce4-goodies, debian-goodies, etc.
In the interest of Security Researcher safety, and prevent you from doxxing yourself, you may want to remove all EXIF data from uploads.
If you have accidentally uploaded documents to your branch with Personally identifiable information (PII), you have a some time to remove that content from GitHub, usually before it is archived.
If you have any issues files that you do not wish to have in the repository, drop a quick line at https://disclose.io/contact/ and collaborators will do their best to remove it (e.g. git force push).
# ubuntu, debian, pop
sudo apt update -y
sudo apt install exiftool -y
# centos, fedora, rhel, rocky
sudo yum update -y
sudo yum install epel-release -y
sudo yum install perl-Image-ExifTool -y
# arch, manjaro
sudo pacman -Syu perl-image-exiftool
exiftool with the -all option set to nothing will remove all EXIF data.
exiftool -all='' document.pdf
exiftool -all= image.png
exiftool -all= image.jpg
exiftool -all= *.png
exiftool document.pdf
[user@hostname goodies]$ exiftool "Document.pdf"
ExifTool Version Number : 12.16
File Name : Document.pdf
Directory : .
File Size : 182 KiB
File Modification Date/Time : 2021:04:11 08:16:26+00:00
File Access Date/Time : 2021:04:11 08:16:27+00:00
File Inode Change Date/Time : 2021:04:11 08:16:26+00:00
File Permissions : rw-r--r--
File Type : PDF
File Type Extension : pdf
MIME Type : application/pdf
PDF Version : 1.5
Linearized : No
Language : en
Page Count : 1