Followed by this, "The photos get transferred either way, so one has nothing to do with the other."
It was clearly a technical statement not a privacy statement, so only superficial reading might lead one to believe it meant something that it did not.
That is why I replied that the person who replied to my comment, where I said I had argued something different, but that what he wrote was an excellent point.
So, what on earth are you so invested in that you feel the need to argue minutiae that don't apply?