“You don’t have to be a celebrity to be concerned about your privacy. If you want to take nude or sexual photos, that’s your business. Whether or not you choose to share them, also your business,” Rene Ritchie writes for iMore. “And if you want to back them up to iCloud, more power to you.”
“If you don’t want your private photos online, or the photos of your kids or family or anything at all, that’s fine too,” Ritchie writes. “Turn off iCloud backup for your photos and keep them private.”
“iCloud Photo Library syncs every photo you take on your iPhone up to Apple’s servers and then syncs it back down to any other Apple devices you have logged into the same account. That includes personal, private, even intimate photos,” Ritchie writes. “So, if your camera roll if filled up with photos you don’t want on Apple’s servers — or anyone else’s servers, you can turn off iCloud Photo Library. You’ll lose you backup, but you might decide the piece of mind is worth it.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple makes sharing photos and videos very easy; too easy in some cases, depending on the contents of the photographs and videos.
As we wrote back in August 2017: We’re hoping Apple will just allow us to truly hide and password protect photos and videos right in the Photos app, or even in the camera app (via, for example, a lock/unlock icon in the Camera app where “locked” signifies that you’re currently shooting password-protected photo/video that will not be shared via My Photo Stream and that will be locked in iCloud Photo Library).
SEE ALSO:
New Nude app is a photo vault that uses AI to hide your sensitive photos – October 17, 2017
How to make sure you remove photos from iCloud Photo Library – October 10, 2017
How to hide photos and videos on your iPhone in a locked and private album – August 24, 2017
Second ‘Fappening’ hacker who targeted celebrity Apple accounts sentenced to 9 months in prison – January 26, 2017
36-year-old man to plead guilty to iCloud ‘Fappening’ celebrity nude photo theft – March 15, 2016
‘Fappening’ celebrity nude leak suspect alleged to have hacked 572 iCloud accounts – June 10, 2015
iCloud accounts at risk after hacker releases tool allowing access to any login – January 2, 2015
Jennifer Lawrence calls nude photo hacking a ‘sex crime’ – October 7, 2014
Apple’s iCloud security nightmare gets worse as more nude celebrity pics leak – September 21, 2014
Since the celebrity nude iCloud hacks, one third of Americans have improved their online security – September 8, 2014
Apple denies iCloud breach – September 3, 2014
How easy is it to crack into an Apple iCloud account? We tried to find out – September 3, 2014
Celeb nudes: Comprehensive review of forum posts reveals no mention of ‘Find My iPhone’ brute force technique – September 2, 2014
Apple’s iCloud is secure; weak passwords and gullible users are not – September 2, 2014
Apple: No iCloud breach in celebrity nude photos leak – September 2, 2014
FBI, Apple investigating alleged iCloud hack of celebrity nude, sex photos and videos – September 2, 2014
Celebrity or not, Apple isn’t responsible for your nude photos – September 2, 2014
Apple ‘actively investigating’ Jennifer Lawrence, other nude celebrity photos hack – September 1, 2014
“How to keep your personal intimate photos off iCloud”
Don’t put them up on the iCloud in the first place.
AKA “reject the photo storage method Apple keeps trying to push everyone onto”. Which is exactly what this article is suggesting we do.
“MacDailyNews Take: Apple makes sharing photos and videos very easy; too easy in some cases, depending on the contents of the photographs and videos.”
There’s nothing easier than sharing photos in person via email.
“Hide” is an option.
Or you could turn on two-factor authentication. BUT, yes, if you’re not security minded at all, want to post a large abount of personally identifiable information on social media AND provide answers to your challenge security questions VIA said personally identifiable data stream, then you should definitely keep your photos off of ANY cloud.
This is a good solution. Been using for a few years now and happy with it. $3 well spent.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lock-photos-photo-secret-vault/id448033053?mt=8