Who Can See My Camera Roll On Facebook

Facebook has introduced a new characteristic for iPhone, iPad and Android users which ways you tin can automatically sync whatsoever photos you take on your mobile device with your Facebook business relationship.

This removes the nuisance of having to manually choose which photos to upload.

Here are 9 things you should know almost Facebook Photo Syncing:

1. You lot take to opt-in to Facebook Photo Sync. Facebook hasn't turned information technology on by default. Chances are that your get-go knowledge of it volition be when you access Facebook on your iOS or Android device, and are encouraged to "Go started".

   

   Information technology's good that Facebook has decided to make users consciously opt-in to this service. There would accept been a loud out-cry if they hadn't.

2. If you enable the feature, your last twenty photographs and every subsequent photo you have, will exist automatically uploaded in the groundwork to a individual Facebook album. And then you may want to bank check what photos you have already taken first.
3. The photos that you have synced from your telephone are non visible to any other Facebook users. When yous view your synced photos, you lot can cull so to share them on your Facebook timeline or send them as a bulletin to a friend.
4. If you're worried that Facebook Photo Sync will eat into your information plan, you can tell Facebook to merely sync when yous are on Wi-Fi rather than via your cellular network.

   

   (Note that Facebook says it will sync photos at a smaller size – approximately 100KB – when you employ a 3G or 4G network)

5. Facebook says information technology won't sync your photos when battery levels are "low".
6. Automated uploading of every photograph you have means every photo you take. Yes, including the ones you took for that guy you're flirting with, or the one y'all snapped of that role of your trunk y'all can't quite see properly with a mirror.

   

   Furthermore, if someone takes a photograph of you without your permission it will be automatically uploaded to Facebook – you may demand that they delete the photo off their phone, only will it besides have been removed from their private Facebook anthology?

7. Every photograph synced from your telephone will be able to be mined for data past Facebook.

   Photos taken on mobile devices can include meta information such as the location where the photo was taken – and this could exist used to determine where you lot are, and help Facebook display localised advertising.

   Furthermore, Facebook could integrate its facial recognition technology with Photo Sync, analyse your photos to run across whose faces it recognises and automatically tag their names.

   Over time a comprehensive database of where you lot have been, and who with, is congenital up.

8. If yous opt-in to Facebook Photo Sync, y'all are no longer in charge of what photos yous upload to Facebook. In the past, yous could decide what images yous uploaded to the social network, and which pictures it could analyse for its own purposes.

   At present, all photos – good and bad – will be available to Facebook. That doesn't hateful anyone apart from you and Facebook's servers will exist able to see them, but in that location's clearly a reduction in your level of control.

9. You tin can disable Facebook Photo Sync past following these instructions.

Yous tin learn more about Facebook'south new Photo Sync feature by visiting its official aid pages.

If y'all are on Facebook and want to go on yourself informed about the latest news from the earth of internet security and privacy, bring together the Sophos Facebook page where more than 200,000 people regularly talk over these problems and best practice.

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Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/12/03/facebook-photo-sync-things-should-know/

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