Here’s  something scary to think about for iOS users, reported by Tim Barribeau at everythingiCafe: Facebook wants your photos. All of them. In fact, word is that they’re working on a feature for iOS that’ll do just that — upload each and every photograph you take automatically. It’s a feature dubbed Photo Sync, and it’s […]
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Yikes. Facebook Said to Be Working on Photo Sync for iOS

Nov 21st 2012 by

Facebook photo sync

Here’s  something scary to think about for iOS users, reported by Tim Barribeau at everythingiCafe:

Facebook wants your photos. All of them. In fact, word is that they’re working on a feature for iOS that’ll do just that — upload each and every photograph you take automatically. It’s a feature dubbed Photo Sync, and it’s already available for Android.

There have been a handful of apps  and social networks that have started offering this capability recently – Dropbox and Google+ are two to spring to mind straight away. I’m not fond of the idea and have opted out of the offer on both of those – mostly because I just have never, ever thought to myself ‘Hey, I really want to share every single photo I take with the world’.

And of all the places I really don’t want to share everything with, Facebook comes very close to top of the list. They don’t exactly have a stellar reputation for having user privacy at the top of their list of priorities last I checked.

What do you all think? Do you want your iPhone uploading every single pic you take automatically to Facebook?

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