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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by moi2388 on Friday August 29, 2025 @10:18AM (#45064466)
Well, no. It keeps giving permission to the app, and it’s a lot of clicks to manage.

It shouldn’t give access at all, but use a secure clipboard implementation so that only that app can read it out exactly once.

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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by jamwil on Friday August 29, 2025 @10:23AM (#45064537)
Whether you share it once or in perpetuity is of no practical consequence. They already have the photo at that point.

I agree about the clicks—the UX should be one-shot select and share with the permissions handled implicitly.

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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by moi2388 on Friday August 29, 2025 @11:27AM (#45065383)
It’s about permissions to read out the photo album to begin with, as well as due to it being a pain to change often leading to whole selections of photos being shared
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