![]() ![]() ![]() You add the people you know to your friends lists on a regular basis. Their apps see your location whenever you interact with them. Facebook already knows all of this information. Ladies, gentlemen, and conspiracy theorists, please pay attention to this next bit. Then there are the conspiracy theorists, who will naturally be outraged by the idea, and insist that “Facebook just want to mine your uploaded photos for data!”, “Facebook will know who your location and determine who you’re hanging out with by scanning the faces of the people in your photos!”, “Facebook will use brands it identifies in photos to target ads at you!” Just as they did on Google plus well over a year ago. #PHOTOSYNC SERIAL SERIAL#Serial sharers, social media addicts and photographers will likely embrace the new features with open arms. Some users on the other hand, will embrace the new feature and allow Facebook to collect their photos and store them in a private folder, ready to be shared at a later date or discarded over time. In each case, the person acknowledged the new feature, tapped ‘cancel’, and went about their business as before. #PHOTOSYNC SERIAL UPDATE#I’ve already seen a dozen people do this, as the update presented itself at the top of their news feeds. On the whole, I expect a majority of Facebook users will ignore the new feature and go about their daily social media routine as normal. In both cases the features have been well received and are used regularly by many users. Dropbox, the popular cloud storage service, has also been providing photo upload functionality in its mobile apps since April of this year. Google+ has supported instant photo uploading since its inception over 16 months ago. This time it’s centred around the new Photo Sync feature Facebook have baked into their Android and iOS apps, making it possible to auto upload all the photos you take directly into a private photo album within your Facebook gallery. With every month that passes, another Facebook privacy scandal is born. OH MY GOD! Facebook wants to mine our photos for data! How will we ever defend ourselves from this free-to-use, private-by-default, opt-in service?! Calm down people, it’s just Facebook catching up with the competition again. ![]()
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