Google photos, password protecting
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I received an interesting request from a doc this morning.
He was wondering if there is a way to password protect or otherwise prevent casual photo viewing of photos on an Android phone.
Currently he only uses the built in camera and the Google Photos app which syncs with Google Cloud for backups.
Edited for clarity.
The idea here isn't to prevent someone from picking up the phone while unlocked, etc.. it's so he can hand his phone to someone on purpose and allow them to flick through the photos without seeing the pictures of surgical procedures he has taken.
For example, and the reason for the question, he handed the phone to his 10 year old son to look through some recent vacation pictures... and then ran into the surgical ones.. eww gross dad, I don't wanna see those.. so now dad wants to hide them, yet still have them backed up with the simplicity that Google Photos does.
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I considered deleting the photos from the phone and leaving them on Google's cloud. I'm pretty sure this won't work because Google Photos syncs thumbnails down to the device, and automatically downloads larger sized photos if you click on them.
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@Dashrender said in Google photos, password protecting:
I received an interesting request from a doc this morning.
He was wondering if there is a way to password protect or otherwise prevent casual photo viewing of photos on an Android phone.
Currently he only uses the built in camera and the Google Photos app which syncs with Google Cloud for backups.
Umm, don't leave your phone lying around not password protected?
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@art_of_shred said in Google photos, password protecting:
@Dashrender said in Google photos, password protecting:
I received an interesting request from a doc this morning.
He was wondering if there is a way to password protect or otherwise prevent casual photo viewing of photos on an Android phone.
Currently he only uses the built in camera and the Google Photos app which syncs with Google Cloud for backups.
Umm, don't leave your phone lying around not password protected?
LOL - yeah, that's not what he's trying to prevent. I'll update the OP.
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@Dashrender said in Google photos, password protecting:
@art_of_shred said in Google photos, password protecting:
@Dashrender said in Google photos, password protecting:
I received an interesting request from a doc this morning.
He was wondering if there is a way to password protect or otherwise prevent casual photo viewing of photos on an Android phone.
Currently he only uses the built in camera and the Google Photos app which syncs with Google Cloud for backups.
Umm, don't leave your phone lying around not password protected?
LOL - yeah, that's not what he's trying to prevent. I'll update the OP.
In that case, move the photos to a private location not connected to Google and then delete the photos on the phone/Google Cloud.
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@art_of_shred said in Google photos, password protecting:
@Dashrender said in Google photos, password protecting:
@art_of_shred said in Google photos, password protecting:
@Dashrender said in Google photos, password protecting:
I received an interesting request from a doc this morning.
He was wondering if there is a way to password protect or otherwise prevent casual photo viewing of photos on an Android phone.
Currently he only uses the built in camera and the Google Photos app which syncs with Google Cloud for backups.
Umm, don't leave your phone lying around not password protected?
LOL - yeah, that's not what he's trying to prevent. I'll update the OP.
In that case, move the photos to a private location not connected to Google and then delete the photos on the phone/Google Cloud.
Suggestions on how to do this are welcome.
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Something that would be nice would be a new application that when you launch the application it requires password authentication. This application can use the camera to take photos that are stored completely inside itself and not shared with the phones other picture apps.
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@aaronstuder said in Google photos, password protecting:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.domobile.applock&hl=en
I think this is the best option and easier.
There are other alternatives but the require Root and Xposed.
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@iroal said in Google photos, password protecting:
@aaronstuder said in Google photos, password protecting:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.domobile.applock&hl=en
I think this is the best option and easier.
There are other alternatives but the require Root and Xposed.
Was your account hacked?
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@dashrender said in Google photos, password protecting:
@iroal said in Google photos, password protecting:
@aaronstuder said in Google photos, password protecting:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.domobile.applock&hl=en
I think this is the best option and easier.
There are other alternatives but the require Root and Xposed.
Was your account hacked?
I like to have my phone with root and Xposed installed.
It allows you a lot of features not available in standard Android.
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Any chance he has a Synology NAS? The DS Photo app does exactly this. He can move his pics to specific directories and allow or disallow access to specific people. He could share his vacation photos with his wife and kids and keep the surgery photos private. Each user could have their own login info, and no reason to ever hand his unlocked phone over.
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@iroal said in Google photos, password protecting:
@aaronstuder said in Google photos, password protecting:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.domobile.applock&hl=en
I think this is the best option and easier.
There are other alternatives but the require Root and Xposed.
I didn't click the link you quoted - assumed you were quoting the one right above you.
The Application lock add-on for phones solves nothing. As the OP says, he needs to have the ability to hand the phone to someone with the photos app open and allow them to browse through the photos.
This is why a separate app, or a way to lock specific photos in the Android Photo App is needed.
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@bnrstnr said in Google photos, password protecting:
Any chance he has a Synology NAS? The DS Photo app does exactly this. He can move his pics to specific directories and allow or disallow access to specific people. He could share his vacation photos with his wife and kids and keep the surgery photos private. Each user could have their own login info, and no reason to ever hand his unlocked phone over.
nope he does not. And this would be an overboard thing to purchase for this.
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@dashrender I would say just use a different app for the surgical photos. I cant imagine this is "HIPAA Compliant" anyway.
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@bigbear said in Google photos, password protecting:
@dashrender I would say just use a different app for the surgical photos. I cant imagine this is "HIPAA Compliant" anyway.
actually, as long as the photo doesn't include a face, it's pretty much in the clear. I suppose tatoos would also be something else to avoid.
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@dashrender said in Google photos, password protecting:
@bigbear said in Google photos, password protecting:
@dashrender I would say just use a different app for the surgical photos. I cant imagine this is "HIPAA Compliant" anyway.
actually, as long as the photo doesn't include a face, it's pretty much in the clear. I suppose tatoos would also be something else to avoid.
Meta data on the image would be a big deal. EXIF is easily HIPAA covered.
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@scottalanmiller said in Google photos, password protecting:
@dashrender said in Google photos, password protecting:
@bigbear said in Google photos, password protecting:
@dashrender I would say just use a different app for the surgical photos. I cant imagine this is "HIPAA Compliant" anyway.
actually, as long as the photo doesn't include a face, it's pretty much in the clear. I suppose tatoos would also be something else to avoid.
Meta data on the image would be a big deal. EXIF is easily HIPAA covered.
Why? Unlabeled Leg A was in location 123 on the 21st of Feb, 2017. No PHI to fall under HIPAA
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@jaredbusch said in Google photos, password protecting:
@scottalanmiller said in Google photos, password protecting:
@dashrender said in Google photos, password protecting:
@bigbear said in Google photos, password protecting:
@dashrender I would say just use a different app for the surgical photos. I cant imagine this is "HIPAA Compliant" anyway.
actually, as long as the photo doesn't include a face, it's pretty much in the clear. I suppose tatoos would also be something else to avoid.
Meta data on the image would be a big deal. EXIF is easily HIPAA covered.
Why? Unlabeled Leg A was in location 123 on the 21st of Feb, 2017. No PHI to fall under HIPAA
Exactly. There is no personally identifiable data in the EXIF.
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Not sure if this would help, I know you said he wants the ease of use thing, but my solution would be storing those photos in new folder, and creating in that folder the file called .nomedia, and that will skip it from being indexed in the gallery.
So next time if he wants to go to the surgery photos, he will have to use the File Manager and not the gallery.
