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A few weeks ago, Facebook introduced the ability to sync photos taken on your iPhones, iPads, and Android phones to your Facebook account automatically. Jason Cipriani describes how to enable the feature in “Getting started with Facebook photo sync on Android, iPhone<\/a><\/span>.”<\/p>\n Your smartphone or tablet might prompt you to activate the service, which uploads via Wi-Fi or the cell network the most recent 20 photos taken with the device and all subsequent photos it takes. As Jason explains, the photos are stored in a private folder and aren’t posted to your Facebook Timeline until you post them manually.<\/p>\n Also, Facebook promises not to use too much bandwidth or horsepower, allowing you to disable uploads via the cell network to avoid data charges, for example. Graham Cluley’s post from earlier this month on Sophos’s Naked Security<\/a> blog explains how Facebook’s photo-sync feature works.<\/p>\n As you can imagine, having all the photos taken by your phone or tablet uploaded to Facebook imperils your privacy and security. As MercuryNews.com’s Brandon Bailey reported<\/a> earlier this month, Facebook claims it will not use the data associated with the photos until they are posted.<\/p>\n However, all the data associated with the photos, including where and when they were taken, is still accessible to Facebook and can be used to determine the ads you see. Privacy advocates have pointed out that Facebook users are much more likely to post photos that are already uploaded, often inadvertently.<\/p>\n Facebook’s automatic photo syncing is not activated by default, but you may have enabled the feature without realizing you were doing so. Last week I was contacted by a reader who had done just that: somehow his iPhone photos were being uploaded to his Facebook account. He didn’t remember activating the option and couldn’t figure out how to disable it.<\/p>\n Related stories<\/h3>\n
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