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Google Photos' Nude-Friendly Folders Coming To All Android Phones Soon (theverge.com) 61

Posted by BeauHD from the chamber-of-secrets dept.
Google Photos' Locked Folder feature, which lets you hide sensitive photos and videos from your main library and secure them in a passcode- or biometric-protected folder, is coming to all devices running Android 6 and above. The Verge reports: The feature was released exclusively on newer Pixel phones in June. Google hasn't provided an exact date for when the feature is releasing more widely, noting only that it's "rolling out soon." When it announced the feature onstage at Google I/O in May, Google gave the wholesome example of the feature being used by parents hiding photos of a newly purchased puppy from their children. But I think it's fair to say that most people are going to have very different photos stored in their Locked Folder. I don't know about you, but in all the times I've had to wrench my phone out of someone's hand to stop them scrolling through my photos, it's never been because of a puppy picture.
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  • Sounds like Samsung's Secure Folder feature.

  • "But, But, But, Think of the Children!"

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by hey! ( 33014 )

      Send them Dick pics [pinterest.com].

    • Tim Cook will be thinking how he can give the CCP access to the folders while still claiming "user security and privacy".

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by fermion ( 181285 )
      One thing Apple did write was never overstate the privacy of photos online. Hiding photos in encrypted folders is thing precocious teens have doing for years. Unfortunately it like hiding a Che k in a safe rather than random book. It give people an obvious place to look. This reminds me of Snapchat, that apparently did not know about screen shots.

    • the feature being used by parents hiding photos of a newly purchased puppy from their children.

      Maybe it's just me, but mom hiding photos of her newly-purchased puppies from the children doesn't sound terribly wholesome.

  • Meanwhile at Apple . . . (Score:5, Insightful)

    by base3 ( 539820 ) on Saturday September 25, 2021 @08:22AM (#61831109)
    . . . that feature is being considered to help identify priority photos to scan for CSAM (now) and wrongthink (in the future).

  • Locked from everyone but google and government.

  • Half of all the divorces I know about... (Score:3)

    by Somervillain ( 4719341 ) on Saturday September 25, 2021 @08:52AM (#61831145)
    ...in the last 5 years could have been avoided by this. Cheating on your significant other is shitty. Getting caught is even shittier. As a cautionary tale, a friend of mine got caught by her daughter who borrowed her phone and saw all the skin pics she was sending to some guy she was having an affair with. The same happened to my neighbor, my coworker, a distant relative.

    Want to cheat? That's between you and your SO. Leave the rest of us out of it. Lock up your dick/tit pics. Whatever you do, make sure the rest of your family doesn't find it..or anyone else. Seems like common sense, but I've heard so many stories of folks getting caught in the stupidest way.

    • why even save those pictures? just look at them in the moment when you're actually horny and exchanging them and then delete them.

    • Re:Half of all the divorces I know about... (Score:5, Insightful)

      by bussdriver ( 620565 ) on Saturday September 25, 2021 @10:47AM (#61831323)

      I wouldn't hire you and would monitor you more if I found you are a cheater.

      People who cheat on their partner are more likely to steal and defraud their employer.

      • What about piracy? Those people will respect their bosses private information. ;-) BTW does anyone know what Apple's latest plans are?

      • This is based on what evidence?

        • Aside from common sense, basic reasoning, and human psychology (I suggest you don't work in security;) one study using a huge dataset you should be able to find from the ashleymadison.com breach used their identities in with public criminal records for fraud and it did show a significant connection; although, it was smaller than I expected. NOTE: in the USA, outside a couple protections you have zero protection from being fired over absolutely anything.

          It would be difficult to do a whole lot better without

          • It's hardly surprising that bad dudes would wind up on Ashley Madison, but why do you think the association goes the other way?

            People who commit fraud also likely to have Facebook accounts, but that association doesn't work the other way, people with Facebook accounts to people who commit fraud.

            This is common sense.

      • Any data to back this claim up? Color me skeptical, and my understanding is that the notion of binary notion of an individual being trustworthy or not is actually hogwash. Turns out everyone lies, only, we all do it about different things. Some of the things surely deserve moral judgement, but probably not conflation with every sin, vice, or moral shortcoming.
    • Why the fuck do people need to walk around with dirty pics on them?? Before smartphones you didn't typically keep nudes - of yourself or anyone else - in your wallet, unless you had issues.

      Of course, "issues" are the norm now...

      • I had the same thought. This normalizes something that before would not be common- this is what happens as new technology becomes available. I can't really understand why anyone would want to do this either, but given this feature it must be more common that I would imagine. So it goes.

  • I'm not sure about you... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Pollux ( 102520 ) <speter@tedat[ ]et.eg ['a.n' in gap]> on Saturday September 25, 2021 @09:33AM (#61831197) Journal

    But I think having a "Porn goes here" folder on your phone would be a -huge- security risk, even with extra security. It's like telling theives, "Here's where you find the family jewels."

    • Here's where you find the family jewels."

      That was intentional, I suppose.

    • But I think having a "Porn goes here" folder on your phone would be a -huge- security risk, even with extra security. It's like telling theives, "Here's where you find the family jewels."

      There's already a "Porn goes here" folder, it's where all the photos are stored. This sounds more like a safe, when the family jewels get stored.

    • Having a "money goes here" folder in you pocket is a huge security risk. It's like telling thieves "Here's where you go to find the family cash."

  • Tech company "security" (Score:5, Funny)

    by DaveM753 ( 844913 ) on Saturday September 25, 2021 @09:43AM (#61831209)

    Dearest End User,
    Google would like your help in identifying which of your photos are most sensitive to you.
    By placing images into this folder, you are helping us 'secure' your images and maintain your 'privacy'.
    We're not suggesting that we, as the creator and maintainer of the operating system on your device, would have administrator access to a folder on your device. Certainly not. And we would never use such access for blackmail, nor would we ever provide any access to government or other private organizations that request such access, even under court order. No. Never. We swear.
     
    Sincerely,
    Google
    Trillion dollar global corporation that will "do no evil"

    • Sorry to break the news to you, but Google doesn't care enough about its users to ever interact with them directly. Blackmail implies that Google has any interest in you whatsoever, beyond selling your data as a product.

  • The presence of any hidden photos on an electronic device shall henceforth be classified as "something to hide", and which shall be considered sufficient evidence of commission of a crime to warrant arrest of the individual and both seizure and search of the electronic device.

  • Unfortunately, the locked photos are only stored locally, which negates one of the prime advantages of Google Photos (cloud sync). There's no technical reason they couldn't sync your encrypted photos to the cloud the same as all your other photos and maintain their privacy, which means the hobbling was probably due to overzealous legal concerns. Google doesn't want to be hosting "bad" content on their servers even if they can't actually see it.

    • ... the locked photos are only stored locally, [thus no backups] ... There's no technical reason they couldn't sync your encrypted photos to the cloud the same as all your other photos and maintain their privacy,

      But there darn tootin' IS a LEGAL reason:

      As a matter of law you "have no reasonable expectation of privacy" when you store information with a third party.

      - Keep your encrypted pornographic selfies on your phone and the cops and spooks need to get a warrant and grab your phone, or they don't

  • Comment removed (Score:3)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Saturday September 25, 2021 @01:38PM (#61831639)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • Nudity is no more taboo or weird than food.
    It's the normal state is you go swimming or if it's hot.

    Everything else is *literally* obeying the morals of organized child rapist schizophrenic terrorists.
    As long as it exists, we're still in the dark ages.

  • ... all your photos for 'sensitive' content. Put them in one common directory only accessible by you ... and them.

    You have to admit it's clever.

    Next up: a 'feature' that will scan your phone and hide your sensitive photos for you by placing them in the 'Nude-friendly' folder.

    Kind of like a local police on your phone. Now _that's_ security.

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