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

submitted 4 months ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/privacy@programming.dev

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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.

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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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[-] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Billions of users must now decide.

.... To opt in.

Oooh, scary.

[-] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I mean, this could mean that someone with photos of you opts in and you have no say

[-] RadioEthiopiate@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago

Google's been doing that for ages. The thing that finally got me to pull the trigger on GrapheneOS last year was my Pixel telling me I had "over 8GB of memes" on my phone and asked if I wanted to clean up my storage.

[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Newsflash: They've been doing this since day 1. If you use facial recognition and/or any of the advanced editing features, congratulations, your photos have been subject to AI acanning.

You're welcome.

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