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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live (www.forbes.com)
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Google confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation. That means Gemini seeing who you know and what you do. You likely have tens or hundreds of thousands of photos. They’re all exposed if you update.

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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Say, if phones started creating a 3d map everywhere they went, and you obviously disable it. There will, at some point, be someone who enters your house and unwittingly map it out.

This isn't about personal resistance but the futility of it as the general populace neither cares, knows or put any thought into it.

I use opt out strings in my SSID, blurred the house on gmaps, etc. Last year noticed some random person put it on mapillary, there's other services that require other optout strings. That's just scratching the surface.

Things are happening that I don't even know about, let alone respond to them.