Google automatically sharing geotagged photos from Photos to Maps

[SmellyGeekBoy]

The tweet doesn't say that these photos came from "Photos", just an "unused account". All other evidence seems to suggest that these are photos from another service called Panoramio which Google acquired at some point. Not saying it's right or wrong by the way (perhaps something in Panoramio's TOS that all photos were public), but based on this news I'd assume that my beach photos in Google Photos are safe from prying eyes - for now.

[YouKnowBetter]

Strange... Among all of my google accounts I have checked and NOTHING was automagically shared. My pictures must suck or I did NOT do:

Share a photo On your computer, open Google Maps. In the top left, click Menu Menu and then Your contributions. Choose Photos. Find the photo you’d like to share. In the top right, click More More and then Share.

[arturhoo]

As a counter point, I woke up today to this weird email: https://bit.ly/2wMpPL3

Picture is from 2011 and was originally hosted on Picasa (but I'm pretty certain it was never shared publicly) and I don't have a Google Plus account. If I go to the picture itself on Photos, there's no sharing/privacy controls, so I'd assume it is private.

The wording on the email makes it even worse, as if I had intentionally done something overnight to share them on Maps.

[josecurioso]

Yeah... I'm going to go out on a limb and say this guy messed up with one of the prompts asking for permission. This just doesn't happen.

[lowry]

Same for me, but they took my 2009 photos from an old OSM-based website with panorama in its name that I used back then.

Can't remember the exact name of the website, though.

[muro]

panoramio?

http://www.panoramio.com/

[muro]

Never seen that. Maps regularly asks to review and share photos of some place, but never automatically.

For now, I'll go with fake news.

[dontCallMeDaddy]

Highly doubtful that.

[jchw]

Never seen this. Doesn't sound intentional at all.