Allow for writing of limited-scope EXIF data via configuration for uploaded Image assets

As a Roblox developer, it is often not possible to directly ensure that collaborators’ contributions, image licenses, or the title of a given artwork created for use in an experience are retained alongside a given work.

Although, for obvious security reasons, EXIF data for images is stripped by ROBLOX during processing of an image at the time of upload, I feel that this risk would still be mitigated while providing more value to contributors were ROBLOX to provide a means by which to provide limited EXIF data (specifically, contributors, title, and licensing information) for an image asset via the asset’s configuration page on Creator Hub.

This would allow for all retained EXIF information to be written - such as the title of a work, a caption (providing a path towards the possibility of alt text for thumbnails/icons), the licensing/copyright information of the image, and the ROBLOX usernames of contributors. This would provide an inherent means by which a contributor’s work can be verified by those wishing to hire them - allowing for them to utilize the image attributions as a source of truth as to someone having worked on a project in the past - thereby providing an additional safeguard against some of the impersonation-based social engineering attacks which have seen a rise in frequency over the recent months.

Forgot to mention this in the original post:

The reason why I am suggesting this be set up to be written via on-platform means is to allow for filtering and/or input validation to protect against users inadvertently disclosing sensitive information via EXIF data - the main reason why such data ever gets filtered in the first place.