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Just wait until apple adds a “recently accessed photos” list or better permissions. So many apps are going to be found to snarf photos due to the lax permission
by RL_Quine 7y ago
Just wait until apple adds a “recently accessed photos” list or better permissions. So many apps are going to be found to snarf photos due to the lax permissions.
- nexuist 7y agoI'm not sure what you mean by this. Uploading a user's entire photo album to some private cloud would be cost and time prohibitive. If I give an app access to my photos, it's generally because it's some kind of photo editing or social media app, and I would expect it to access my entire library since that's what I'm using it for. Apple already provides an alternative to the default photos permission: the photo picker UI. No app needs to request photos permission for that because it only returns the picture the user picked (or null if they canceled the dialog). I think that's a reasonable compromise.
- lxgr 7y agoA sufficiently malicious and well-funded app might perform on-device face recognition (which is getting hardware support on newer devices) and only upload the hashes.
- RL_Quine 7y agoI can imagine it’s very easy to scan the users photos for anything potentially of value and just steal that. Looking for skin tones would allow the theft of potentially sensitive images with low bandwidth and time budgets. Yahoo and others already have pornography detection suites for things like public forums. It should really be the only option for 99% of apps. The picker upload isn’t used much because app developers want to add their own chrome to image selection.