The most popular social networking site google+ has lead to a huge privacy problem .One of the best features about google+ is ,the way we can manage who see the things we share , with circles .Google+ has beaten Facebook in making it super easy to make sure that only intended people can see our updates.
As Google+ gains many users, a very serious privacy issue has been discovered with the way google+ manages with your photo albums.
Ofcourse google + allows users to keep private albums.In fact private albums are quite important in Google+ because photos taken using an Android device gets uploaded to your private photo album.
As one Google+ user has noticed, it seems like tagging someone on a photo means that he/she can see the whole album even if you have not shared it. This is not actually a bug – but rather a feature in Google+.
Facebook too allows users who have been tagged to see the photo. But people tag others in Facebook photos to let them see it. In the case of Google+ it it a bit different. The Google+ photo album is basically Picassa – the popular photo management tool. Since Picassa has been in existence much before Google+, people do not tag others on Picassa to share – they tag to organize their photos.
So basically what it means is that, if you try to organize your photos in a private album by tagging the people in the photos, not only they will be able to see every photos you in that album, they will be able to share it as well. If it happens with your Instant Upload album – that is the album to which Android devices automatically uploads your photos – others can see all the photos you have taken using your Android device.
This is simply a huge privacy problem.
Google+ is still officially in the field testing phase and let us hope they sort this out.
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