1. Create a keyword John.
2. Edit the keyword and check the Person attribute.
3. Assign the keyword to a photo.
4. Export the photo to disk with Include: All Metadata and Remove Person Info selected.
5. Use ExifTool to verify that the keyword John was exported.
Tested on LR CC 2015.12 / OS X 10.12.6 and Windows 10.
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Steve Sprengel, Champion
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So the export setting removes the Face-detection info but not Person-attributed keywords.
Maybe the option should be entitled Remove Face Info or is that still not quite right?
And is there a need for removing the Person info aside from any Face-detection info?
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I think people want to remove the Person keywords regardless of whether they're associated with faces or not. E.g. https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2382531
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If I'm checking a box that says "Remove Person Info", my expectation is that ALL person-related info is removed, whether or not it's associated with a face rectangle created by face recognition or just a person keyword I created and assigned myself.
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Rikk Flohr, Official Rep
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The export is the as designed behavior currently. A keyword can be assigned to a photo or a face region. By default, Lr only remove the person keyword on export if it is associated with an identifiable face region. To prevent exporting of keyword generally assigned to a photo, Lr has a separate “Include on Export” private keyword attribute. The current implementation gives that additional flexibility of exporting person keyword assigned to a photo, but not identify the person on a specific region of the photo.
Any changes to this behavior would fall into the realm of a feature request (Idea).
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In the context of Lightroom, "Person" and "Face" are specific, different concepts. If the option were to say "Remove Face Info", the actual behavior would match expected behavior.
That the label doesn't match the design behavior nor actual behavior is a bug.
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It is also important that this not be delegated to the "Include on Export" keyword option, which is either always on or always off. Some export use cases clearly require the ability to include personal info, while others clearly require it to be excluded. (E. g. private vs. public use of exported images.)
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