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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by noname120 on Friday August 29, 2025 @09:45AM (#45064059)
It’s a big pain because then you have a double-picker: first pick the pictures in the native dialog asking you to decide which pictures the app should have access to, and then select again the pictures you want but this time in the WhatsApp picker. It’s very awkward.
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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by trinix912 on Friday August 29, 2025 @09:50AM (#45064134)
A solution would be that Apple builds a privacy preserving picker in the OS, then mandates apps use it instead of giving them access to the camera roll and letting them roll their own pickers in the first place.
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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by SSLy on Friday August 29, 2025 @09:53AM (#45064173)
> A solution would be that Apple builds a privacy preserving picker in the OS

there is already one, the enforcement point is what's missing

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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by enigmo on Friday August 29, 2025 @09:59AM (#45064245)
this already exists, many apps use it. I do wish it was mandatory for _all_ apps to use it instead of being optional.
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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by MiddleEndian on Friday August 29, 2025 @03:58PM (#45068685)
iOS (and Android) could also replace the non-privacy-respecting one with a privacy-respecting one that just gives dummy responses to other API calls. Devices should be lying on my behalf to apps and services all the time.
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