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Did he set up his device to upload his private data to Google, or did Google create an OS that automatically sent everyone's private data to their AI server for

• izacus 2mo ago
  Google Photos does ask you for consent when you run it. (It is, granted, a bit pushy about it and will ask multiple times when you run it with an intrusive dialog.)
  • GeekyBear 2mo ago
    Informed consent would require Google to inform you that their AI server will scan every photo you take with your device and report you to the police if it should detect (or hallucinate) something it doesn't like.
    • dghlsakjg 2mo ago
      On page 83 of subsection 14 of paragraph 3 of the consent document you agree to by using "google" as a verb, or by viewing any website they have a tracking pixel on there is a link to a policy which mentions that they retain the right to scan any and all of your photos for advertising targeting purposes, and further, if you read page 27 of the sub agreement mentioned in upside down white on white text in the main TOS they describe advertising purposes as: "Anything we want to do, in perpetuity, for any reason, and without any right of redress". It's right there plain as day in the TOS. I don't know how people can use these products without understanding the contract they locked themselves into. /s
    • izacus 2mo ago
      Now you're just bizarrely moving the goalposts instead of admitting you spread misinformation.
  • amennox 2mo ago
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