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Didn't know that, who gets copies?

• chatmasta 9y ago
  Not sure wha GP is referring to exactly. But at least in theory, it’s possible for Google to access the images, since they’re stored on Google servers. In practice this is very unlikely. If you save the snaps to your camera roll, then any app with photos permissions has access to them (along with any metadata). But that’s obvious.
  • zmarty 9y ago
    I am astounded of the faith people still have that companies and 3 letter agencies will not store and use their data forever, after all the revelations in the past years. And to think this is YCombinator News, not some random news website.
    • spenczar5 9y ago
      It's not faith, for me, I was just surprised by the confidence with which Xeoncross said that the data is copied. It sounded like this was just a public, documented fact that I missed.
    • mulmen 9y ago
      Safe assumptions: 1) The network is compromised. 2) Users have hostile intent. 3) (Cloud) storage is publicly visible.