Re: Pictures appearing in my photo album that i haven't taken!!
Its because you are logged into google, and if you have a google plus account, the photos have been uploaded there
Haven't you seen the movie 'Sex Tape'? with Cameron Diaz?
I pnce freaked out because i own 130 blogspot addresses, and every blogspot blog uploads all photos i put in my blogs, as well as uploading photos from my android devices to the google plus, and picasa websites, and when i got my first Samsung Galaxy smartphone, i opened 'gallery' app to find my work files ( i sell online and photo my products in the smartphone and edit them on it before adding to my store).. when i open the album to find work files.. cannot because there are 240 billion pictures of all sorts of things i blogged over the last 12 years. I then noticed that there were some photos of a man in a bedroom with some 'paid friendship' on one of my spiritualism related google plus profiles, and that the pictures tab was full of pornographic content and on my Galaxy also started appearing! This came because i had given a Galaxy Tab 10 as a gift to a friend and he hadnt removed my google account from the device (also you cannot remove devices added to google play in your name and profile, so if you sell it you can never tell google to delete it from your device list, because its there forever).
And so there you go. you must have been online when you took that photo of the cd stack, and the android phone uploaded it to your google account. If the images are plublicly viewable or not, depends on your settings
So dont take any pics that may be embarrassing until you know how to stop the phone from publishing all your personal stuff online without you realising
Or do the best you could do and go iOS because Android is difficult to keep a control on how much of your personal Data google is sharing with you, and to its advertisers, and google surfers in the google domains like google plus, picasa etc. The gallery app shows you all your online photos. Not just whats on your device.
Another thing which angered me a lot with this device, is that i have a micro sd card with all my itunes music on it inserted, and Gallery ap also shows about 160 folders with tiny jigsaw cut up sections of album covers, which coomes from my music - the album covers are for some reason encrypted and are all cut up in tiny segments, so to find a photo i made on the device is buried under about 150,000 tiny images which cannot recognise or know even which album they are from
I suggest you find a different app for browsing local files. I also suggest trying an iOS device. I use both OS for different purposes and to be honest, unless you are really into settings fiddling and browsing through mega complex folder trees etc, i would say that an Androud device may confuse you more than an iOS.
It seems you are not yet familiar with smartphone Operating Systems as far as logged in profile online in Google is concerned.
Android phones log you in to your google account, and that is the same as android having a key to your house, and can broadcast everything on your phone, to the internet.
I myself don't log in to google on my Xperia or my Samsung, because i don't want that kind of functionality, but it has to be said, that the Android smartphone is stunted unless you log in, and is limited to very basic functionality unless you log in. Its designed that way for their data-miniing and advertising purposes, and is an extreme privacy issue for me. iOS is not public, its limited to the Apple Environment, but has the power to share or not share, without having to stunt the device by not logging in to your user account/profile.
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