Photo Stream - Apple's Latest Spying Technique

ToBeFrank

Hi all,

Remember that scandal last year about Apple tracking all your movements? Well it's occurred to me that they've replaced it with an improved system - Photo Stream.

Photo Stream uploads your photos automatically to Apple once you're on wi-fi, great for automatic backups they'd have you think. But the fact that you can't delete individual photos and that it only stores 1,000 photos and/or for a maximum of 30 days means that Apple just constantly churns through all the uploaded photos, gets the geo-location, does the facial recognition etc then deletes the photos once it's got what it wants all under the guise of doing temporary backups for you.

I think Photo Stream is more for Apple's benefit than for users. The fact that you can't do a simple thing like delete single photos (of course Apple could easily implement this feature!) started to make me very suspicious about what was going on.

I would welcome other thoughts on this.

Eire Go Brach

Nice first post Jim. Stick to the music dude..

Creamy Goodness

turn it off if you don't like it. simples

Tom Dunne

And in other news, Aldi are doing a special on tinfoil hats.

eyesquirm

Tom Dunne wrote: »

And in other news, Aldi are doing a special on tinfoil hats.

Hope they have some left tomorrow.

vinnycoyne

ToBeFrank wrote: »

the fact that you can't delete individual photos

You can delete individual photos in the upcoming iOS 5.1 update.

CathalDublin

No ones forcing you to use it, turn it off if your taking ropey pictures of the other half or whatever it is your scared of apple knowing where it was taken!

naasrd

OP, can you lend me a pen? I need to write down that down on my list of "crap I don't give a damn about"

barryd09

Defo a droidboi.