Q: using iPhoto share (public), how can a 3rd party become a subscriber without my adding that person?

They can not  - if you enabled a public web site then anyone can access it but that is not being a subscriber - one can only subscribe if you invite them

LN

Soo aaaa.com passed their invitation on to bbbb.com - they were invited

and of course the simple solution is listed in the email you quoted

The invitation sent to aaaaa  .  com was accepted by bbbbb .com.

If you did not intend to invite this person, you can remove them from your shared album.

LN

Is was set up by aaaa when they gave bbbb their personal invitation - and Apple notified you, gave you the solution in their notification and you implemented the solution and it worked  --  everything worked and the issues is resolved - I'm not sure what this thread is about

If yo do not like the way Apple handled things then tell them   --   http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html -- we are users exactly like you and can only tell you how things work - which it turned out you already knew prior to starting this thread - so what exactly is the point?

LN

I find this very problematic, Larry.

See this document:  iCloud Photo Sharing FAQ - Apple Support

As the owner of a shared album, you control with whom you share your album. You can remove subscribers to your album at any time.

Apple does not mention any time in this document, that invitees can forward the invitation to others, and others can subscribe without the consent of the owner.

There could be many hours lost, before we may notice that an invitation has been forward to someone we do not want to have access to a particular shared album.

It  should not be possible to accept an invitation from a different mail address than the one it has been sent to.

And one more time

It was set up by aaaa when they gave bbbb their personal invitation - and Apple notified you, gave you the solution in their notification and you implemented the solution and it worked  --  everything worked and the issues is resolved - I'm not sure what this thread is about

 

If you do not like the way Apple handled things then tell them   --   http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html --

LN

I guess I do not disagree but then again I can not do a single thing aobut it except suggest reporting it to APple who is hte onlhy one who can do anything about it

If you do not like the way Apple handled things then tell them   --   http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html --

No other action will possibly change anything - what exactly do you plan to do or suggest I do to change this?

LN

what exactly do you plan to do or suggest I do to change this?

Pass the warning about this undocumented feature on, if another original poster asks about sharing albums. This is really serious issue and badly documented by Apple.

It is  important that other users will be alerted to the risk. Anyone sharing albums needs to monitor closely the list of subscribers or may be in for bad surprises. People we did not invite may be adding photos to our shared albums or see photos not meant for them.

I reported it to Apple, but until the developers do something about it, we need to be careful and watch the shared albums.

As soon as I saw this I disabled "Subscribers can post" for all shared albums. Now at least nobody I did not invite can add embarrassing photos to albums I invite to.

LarryHN wrote:

 

And one more time

It was set up by aaaa when they gave bbbb their personal invitation - and Apple notified you, gave you the solution in their notification and you implemented the solution and it worked  --  everything worked and the issues is resolved - I'm not sure what this thread is about

 

If you do not like the way Apple handled things then tell them   --   http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html --

 

 

LN

It is not a solution to have to tell someone who has been invited to a shared album "No, I do not want you to participate".  That is putting us into a social fix - it is not a solution. If someone forwards the invitation to somebody we did not invite for good reasons, it will be an unnecessary social complication. Either we ignore it or we'll be in trouble with two people - the one, who passed the invitation on without our consent  and the new subscriber.    I would not uninvited anybody. I would simply delete the shared album and start over with a new album and never invite the offender again.

Seems to me that is analogous to you giving me your phone number and then me passing it on to someone else. Do we expect Apple (or whoever) to make it impossible to pass on numbers? What they do is give us the ability to block unwanted callers. The problem here is that a private invitation was passed on. That's where the problem lies. Is the solution then that Apple make it impossible to pass on the invite? Or maybe that we speak to our friends and explain what you regard as acceptable?

That's where the problem lies. Is the solution then that Apple make it impossible to pass on the invite? Or maybe that we speak to our friends and explain what you regard as

It is up to Apple how they want the invite system to work, as long as they explain it clearly.

If it is possible for invited persons to bring uninvited guests, it should be explained in the help documents. We need to know it in advance before we set up an album and invite someone.

The FAQ just says "As the owner of a shared album, you control with whom you share your album."

It is very unexpected that others can invite subscribers to albums they do not manage.

I suspect the reason that Apple allows the invitation to be accepted from a different account is that people may have set up their mail to be forwarded to different mail accounts and may reply from a different mail account. In that case it would be inconvenient to have to accept the invitation from the original account.

It is very unexpected that others can invite subscribers to albums they do not manage.

Passing on my invitation is not the same as me inviting someone, is it?