Hacker NewsJun 28, 2025

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

https://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll

#HackerNews #Facebook #AI #PrivatePhotos #UnpublishedData #MetaNews

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

Facebook users opting to upload their photos for “cloud processing” are inadvertently giving Meta AI access to their entire camera roll, including photos that have not been uploaded to Facebook’s servers.

The Verge
Nextcloud 📱☁️💻Jan 8, 2025

Ask yourself: Are your photo backups *actually* private?

Privacy pioneer and advocate @naomibrockwell explores the dangers of using default Apple and Google photo backups, recommending Nextcloud as a top go-to solution to keep your photos private.

#WhoOwnsYourPhotos? #privatephotos #photobackup

https://youtu.be/n_kTzu8NEyg

Don't Use Google For Photo Backup!

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ITSEC NewsNov 19, 2020
GO SMS Pro Android App Exposes Private Photos, Videos and Messages - The vulnerable version of the app, which has 100 million users, uses easily predictable URLs to li... https://threatpost.com/go-sms-pro-android-app-exposes-private-photos/161407/ #informationdisclosure #securityvulnerability #mediacontentexposure #trustwavespiderlabs #mobilemessagingapp #vulnerabilities #predictableurls #mobilesecurity #privatephotos #websecurity #googleplay #gosmspro #privacy #android #patch
GO SMS Pro Android App Exposes Private Photos, Videos and Messages

The vulnerable version of the app, which has 100 million users, uses easily predictable URLs to link to private content.

Threatpost - English - Global - threatpost.com