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And it will spend its spare time analyzing every single photo in your library.
by sixothree 4y ago
And it will spend its spare time analyzing every single photo in your library.
- smoldesu 4y agoGoogle doesn't scan photos that don't exist on their servers.
- soulofmischief 4y ago... currently. Trusting a dubious central authority up until you get burned is a bad heuristic.
- smoldesu 4y agoI agree, which is why I don't pay for cloud storage.
- b112 4y agoEspecially when Google has said "we won't do thing X", then been caught already doing it, or just silently starting to do it. Just location tracking. The lies. Over, and over, and over, and over again the lies.
- maxbond 4y agoInstitutions of that nature are incapable of following through on nearly any promise made to the public at large; every promise is a lie, whether they break it or not, because they can't be said to have the intention to uphold it. I see no reason not to believe that Page and Brin sincerely desired Google not to be evil; but it's the institution decides to do evil, not any individual, so they did not have (or could not maintain, as the organization scaled) the power to guarantee this. No one does.
- sgregnt 4y agoWhat's the difference? Potentially apple itself can fecide to scan all your photos on the phone....
- soulofmischief 4y agoI don't use an iPhone, and I use an aftermarket Android ROM.
- junon 4y agoFun fact, Xiaomi does by default on their stock OS.
- coffeeblack 4y agoWho would allow the CCP to scan their device?
- pmlnr 4y agoHow do you know? With full access, it's basically impossible to tell.
- balaji1 4y ago> water stain with massive discoloration Maybe they store physical photos and the albums got soaked in water. Sadly it happened to all our 90s photo albums during a flood. Some of the photos were stained really bad.
- choppaface 4y agoWhich is why it’s obnoxious to ask permissions for all photos.
- squeaky-clean 4y agoIt immediately presented me with a screen with the choice to "save originals to cloud or save a compressed version to the cloud" (I don't recall the exact words) with no option to not upload to the cloud, and then immediately started uploading my library. I scrolled back and checked some pre-2015 photos, they look fine, and then deleted the app.
- tinus_hn 4y agoA typical feature of these cloud drives is automatic uploading of pictures from the camera roll, that’s the legitimate use case for demanding access to all pictures. Who knows when Google whoops! accidentally makes that the default. You know, it’s optional, you can just turn it off!
- sixothree 4y agoI'm not sure I believe this _at all_. I uploaded a photo to google maps. A week later it found some random picture of a local park and offered up a notification suggesting that I upload this photo to the destination it had located in the maps app. How on earth are they doing this without "scanning" the photo? Seriously, please tell me.