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@nazgul It's not entirely clear to me that he's talking about pre-uploading recent photos from your phone, or uploading photos that you've selected before you hit upload, e.g. while you're typing a caption.

I'd still regard that as unethical and violation of privacy, but it's not as intrusive as grabbing photos from phone storage before they've been selected by the user.

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Yeah, use billionaire platforms AT YOUR OWN RISK.

@nazgul wow

@nazgul didn't they used to upload all the versions of all the software you had on your phone? (FB not insta).

@nazgul I have to be honest, the idea of the server pre-fetching data about that user to memory when you enter your email address so that by the time the user is authenticated, the user's data can be pushed to the authenticated user is pretty neat.

@nazgul @whvholst Also 100% they have the microphone on to target their ads. Wouldn’t they?

@nazgul Maybe you can take a photo of your credit card and then report them for PCI violations?

@nazgul Data monster in eats data shocker.

@nazgul I spoke to a Facebook developer in 2017 at a UX conference and he acknowledged this, adding that to him it was a great feature. He was amazed at the pushback he got, mainly from European developers at that conference. (GDPR had not even come into effect) The rationale for implementation back then was lousy mobile internet coverage in many places in the US. Privacy or infosec principles were just butchered in favor of UX.

@nazgul which is why I don't download apps for this sort of thing. I don't even access FB from my phone. My computer has security settings dialled right down. My browser likewise. Anything I post on a website is explicitly done. Bit of a faff, but has to be done.

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"How ist this thing so fast in violating privacy law?" One might ask...

@nazgul wow. That’s naughty.

@nazgul Assumption, but I believe he is talking about the photo you have already selected and started putting in description. It checks with the part where he's talking about description being composed and then deleting a single photo (otherwise it's just a wild guess and deleting multiple).

@nazgul Apple and Google share in the blame for still allowing the legacy non-picker access at all.

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They claim they are uploading the "draft" post that the user is working on, not your entire photo gallery. Though, even uploading draft posts can be considered privacy-invading.

@nazgul it is not ok to use facebook products.

@nazgul I would have never guessed this level of evil (not sure whether to congratulate you on your mistrust) but I’m glad that as a general measure I’ve refused to use any Meta app - always used the web IF, however bad they made it… (which they did, consciously, to nudge people to the app)

@nazgul Several years ago, when I decided to cut any contact with FAGAM, Google had uploaded to its network disc without asking me all the photos. After it had done this crime to justify himself, it asked me which ones I wanted to make public. As a programmer, of course, I understood that it had already transferred them from the phone to the web.
Stop trusting companies. Capitalists respect only money and commit whatever crime to do it.

@nazgul Almost every product owned by meta is using this methods since many years. Fb, Insta, WhatsApp and so on. You name it.
And yes, of course it should be a class action made from it and also tons of separate court cases as well. Reasons for suing meta bastards are plenty in this particular topic.

#FuckZuck #FuckMeta

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@nazgul This person just says users caption their pictures using the local cache, while Instagram uploads them in the background?

@nazgul in theory they could encrypt it, upload, send the decryption key after confirm.

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If this is true, it quite sure is a GDPR¹ violation in the EU.

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¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation

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I have this great hack to prevent Facebook from violating you.

Stop using Facebook.

While I can't see what people who were my friends 50 years ago are eating for lunch, somehow I've managed to survive for nearly a decade without it.

I know it's wrong, but I'm over here feeling VERY smug about not being on any Facebook owned properties.

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