Every time I try to save a copy of one of the memes I find here to a Word file, I get this warning message. This just started happening a couple of days ago:
Microsoft Office has identified a potential security concern
This document contains fields that can share data with external files and websites. It is important that this file is from a trustworthy source.
Does anyone know what's going on?
It's because the jpeg file you're pasting contains EXIF data.
Normally, that data is benign, and is used indicate the parameters of device that took the picture (time, date, f-stop, iso, etc.). It may contain GPS data, which is the risk (but not your risk). Word got an update recently to remind users of this.
Often online providers will attach some descriptions or tags as well (probably your case).
MS Word is too dumb to know the difference... so you can save to desktop and use an exif data remover (tons of free ones out there) or find "remove personal data" in Word (usually under File -> document properties) before saving.
Thanks for the explanation, fren! With all of the recent games big tech has been playing on us, it made me nervous about downloading when I saw the warning -- especially when it started appearing all of a sudden. I wanted to make sure they weren't sticking something to the memes to track us, or some such weirdness. In this day and age, you can't be too careful.