Monday, 29 December 2014

Your hidden Facebook photos were never really hidden. This app finds them

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Hiding photos on Facebook may not actually work as well as you think it does.


Picturebook, a browser extension now available in the Chrome web store, claims to allow you to "view hidden photos of anyone on Facebook"— even if you aren't friends with them



Sounds like a Facebook creeper's dream, right? But though Picturebook's description is technically true, it is also misleading


No app or browser extension — this one included — is able to change the privacy settings of someone else's photo. What Picturebook is really doing: surfacing photos that you or your friends have been tagged in, even if you or they previously hid them Read more...


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from Mashable http://mashable.com/2014/12/29/picturebook-chrome-extension/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss

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