One of the strongest ways to fight misinformation will soon be right in your phone

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• A chipmaker for Samsung and Google has just revealed a watertight solution to doctored photos that can be built right into phones.
• Qualcomm]Truepic already operates a profitable enterprise business with its software platform, which adds invisible, digital watermarks to common JPEGs.
• This metadata is complex, including verified date and time, GPS location, a 3D depth map of the scene (to ensure your picture isn’t just of another picture), and even a protected thumbnail of the original image that you can use for comparison to the large photo you see.
• He points out that supporting the artificial intelligence that automatically touches up smartphone photos is now a big part of Qualcomm’s strategy, as is face authentication and digital payment capabilities.