Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live (www.forbes.com)

submitted 4 months ago by steel_for_humans@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

Kinda creepy. I was about to migrate to Immich, fortunately I'm not in the US, so I don't get that update yet. It does seem like a lost battle, anyway :( Even if I migrate to a privacy-respecting FOSS solution, my friends, family, acquaintances and random people around me will not (well, some may). I will still be featured in their photos out of my control.

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[-] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

TBH, I wanted to volunteer on a local crew that maintains hiking trails. I didn't... because they were all about taking endless pics and u/l it to their FB and maybe IG. So I avoided sth I wanted to do make my city better. But no way could I avoid their need to share everything with big tech.

Its hard, and this is a common issue. I have to stop and ask what good am I doing by avoiding it? Usually it's worth the price, because making the real world a better place out weighs most big tech issues.

At least that's how intrt to evaluate things, while still minimizing my own footprint where possible.

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