Ipad & Iphone Privacy Invasion

[thesshhh]

Has anyone on here with an iPad and/or iPhone had some of your photos on the device(s) sent to you on the device(s) as a montage? If so, isnt whoever is doing that - presumably Apple - invading your privacy? It’s happened to a friend of mine on both her devices and the montages were of photos with her boyfriend, so they were clearly carefully selected by the anonymous compiler/sender. If this is against the law, who should my friend turn to?

[woofgang]

I don't understand what you mean by sent? did they come by email or something?

[thesshhh]

Not email, not text, not WhatsApp. When she looked at her phone and iPad (different days) when their screens were locked she found a little message (though there was no indication as to how it got there) saying something like “happy memories” with a photo in tiny size. She pressed on the message / photo and it opened up a selection of photos of her with boyfriend which had clearly been handpicked

[Fitzer]

That sounds like the sort of thing FaceBook does, I don’t have FB notifications set so I don’t get the little pop up but such things (or similar) do turn up in my timeline

[Zacs-Master]

Facebook now uses face recognition technology to ‘find’ you in your own and other people’s photographs. You can turn it off:
https://mashable.com/2018/02/28/how-to-turn-off-facebook-face-recognition/?europe=true#ha3is_IdYqqY