> it starts to indiscriminately upload all of your photos
It only uploads your photos if you check the "Back up & sync" checkbox when you first start the app. If you uncheck that box, it won't upload anything. Don't spread FUD.
It only uploads your photos if you check the "Back up & sync" checkbox when you first start the app. If you uncheck that box, it won't upload anything. Don't spread FUD.
And, as previous cases showed, permissions granted through default-checked boxes, or permissions granted through fine print hidden in the ToS are legally not binding, meaning the uploading is considered a computer crime.
Thilo Weichert, data protection officer of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, did several law cases based on this against Facebook, and almost all of them.
So, again, what are you talking about?
..but if you are an US company, we hate you for the votes.
And the parliament of SH relies on the fact that mass surveillance will have to be cancelled, too, as it violates several data protection laws.
The constitutional court struck down the mass surveillance laws already two times, they’ll do it again.
And yes, I was one of the people protesting on the street against the new laws regarding Melderegisterzugriff
Whether or not this is true in Germany is something I don't know.
Everything that touches your private data has to be opt-in. Or it does not count as "explicit permission", meaning the upload, processing, etc is illegal.