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title: "Home Photo Privacy Checklist"
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# Home Photo Privacy Checklist

Use with [Home Photos and Floorplans: Privacy Before You Upload](/articles/home-photos-and-floorplans-privacy).

## What this is not

- Not DIY repair instructions
- Not a surveillance or security-system design guide
- Not permission to upload clear kids' rooms, keypads, or address docs to consumer AI
- Not a substitute for licensed inspection when life-safety judgment is required

## Prefer offline / text first

- [ ] I tried a text brief (sizes, constraints, must-not-touch) before any upload
- [ ] I can state the ask without showing the whole house

## If I still upload an image

- [ ] Cropped to the stuck detail only
- [ ] Faces blurred
- [ ] Mail / IDs / screens / keypads covered
- [ ] Valuables and open safes out of frame
- [ ] Kids' rooms not shown (or heavily cropped with no identifying cues)
- [ ] Metadata / location stripped if my tools allow
- [ ] Address numbers and yard signs not visible

## Never upload to consumer AI

- [ ] Full unmarked floorplan with street address
- [ ] Security panel close-ups with codes visible
- [ ] Utility / insurance docs with account numbers
- [ ] Suspected asbestos sampling photos as a substitute for accredited inspection

## After the chat

- [ ] I will not forward raw interiors into public group chats
- [ ] Contractor sharing uses a controlled channel, not the same consumer paste