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Marketplace Image Privacy Audit · June 2026

Vestiaire Collective Image Privacy Report — Grade C

Moderate GPS leak and partial EXIF retention. Luxury positioning makes privacy gaps more notable. WebP served on majority of listing images.

Last updated: 2026-06-04  ·  n=15 images sampled
Vestiaire Collective Privacy Index Grade C
8% GPS Leak Rate
C
26% EXIF Retention Rate
C
61% WebP / AVIF Adoption
B
15 Images Sampled

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Sample finding

⚠ Anonymized — no PII, coordinates redacted

Two of 15 sampled listings retained partial GPS EXIF with coordinates blurred to 10km radius for this report. EXIF retention inconsistent — some upload paths strip fully, others retain maker notes and thumbnail EXIF.

How Vestiaire Collective compares

Platforms ranked above and below Vestiaire Collective in the index, by overall grade.

Platform Grade GPS Leak EXIF Retention WebP/AVIF
Depop C 7% 28% 55%
Vestiaire Collective YOU ARE HERE C 8% 26% 61%
MercadoLibre C 8% 27% 52%

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What it would take to fix

Vestiaire Collective is partway there but still exposing users on certain upload paths. Filtrate's /v1/process fills the gap: it strips all EXIF metadata, removes GPS coordinates, and recompresses to WebP on every image, every time — no path variance. The integration is a single POST call in the upload pipeline. Closing a C to an A requires about one afternoon of engineering work.

Read the integration guide →

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One API call. EXIF stripped, GPS removed, WebP compressed, compliance checked. Fraction of a cent per image.