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A patent was granted I think or at least applied for to protect an app that would blur out or delete the faces of people who subscribed to the elite service if people were to photograph them so they could not be published on social media.

I cannot see any reason for a regular person to download the app so it would probably be included in your phone from the factory.

Sounds like someone is hoping Apple and Google are possible customers for such technology I imagine. This made the news 6-12 months ago and the only reason I can think of is to do a bit of Overton Window washing.

Just had a insight, it is sort of like vampires not showing up in a mirror, so the social parasites do not leave an image in the digital domain. A silver emulsion film camera would probably capture their 'soul' just fine and they should take care if they want to walk anonymously amongst the downtrodden into the future.

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Apr 26Liked by Richard Seager

I was just comparing two photographs of Louis yesterday. One which was from the photoshopped photo of Kate and the rest of the children, and one that was taken about six weeks later. The one with Kate and siblings was dated the 10th of March and the one of Louis on his own, was dated the 23rd of April. He has a missing tooth, lower left hand side. When I zoomed in on the photo dated the 23rd, I thought that the missing tooth looked photoshopped. I’m not sure what date the photo of Louis was taken of him in the wheelbarrow, but his tooth is in tact in that photo.

I feel that the Palace officials keep digging themselves into a deeper hole.

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Apr 26Liked by Richard Seager

Yep, that’s the one … interesting.

It’s not looking good at all.

Thanks for your work Richard.

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I’ve since learned that some of the metadata is what Instagram adds. 8BIM is Instagram for example. But I don’t think that Photoshop 3.0 is Instagram.

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You wouldn’t think that they would utilise Photoshop 3?

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Such an old version for Desktop that i doubt that anyone uses it. iPad version is currently 5 point something so I guess it was edited on an iPad.

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Apr 25Liked by Richard Seager

Very well dressed for gardening.

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It was sure to be a photo-op to calm the commoners. Assume it was staged and there is little to fault it.

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Yes my mum used to dress us up like that for special occasions only.

Has a royal ever cooked their own dinner, done their own gardening or washed the dishes?

I worked nearby their Norfolk digs a long time ago.

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Apr 25Liked by Richard Seager

One of the big tells about the photo manipulation was that Kate was wearing a new looking jersey also seen in the past.

If it was for gardening it would be all baggy and saggy and stained.

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they (royalty)are creepy

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Apr 25Liked by Richard Seager

Good music. A long time ago now, proving time waits for no-one.

I think Kate has learnt her lesson about secretly photoshopping. Unfortunately, it has caused

some loss of credibility. Perhaps not a huge deal though, in the overall scheme of things.

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Thanks Kim. The metadata indicates that the photoshopping & editing is done 3 hours east (whereever that may be).

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Finland is 3 hours east at some times of the year. :-)

It is rare for a daily driver (computer of any sort) to have the wrong time these days. It is either air-gapped, deliberately wrong or perhaps in the other timezone.

I expect that PR departments will be massaging everything that leaves the walled garden as they see fit. We can only hope that a mistake is made one day that we can action like two different edits from the same source image done and published out of sequence or something.

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