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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos—One Click Stops It
AI now monitors your photos without warning.
Apple’s Enhanced Visual Search sends parts of photos to the cloud to match against a global index of points of interest. It’s very privacy-preserving, but as crypto expert Matthew Green complained, “it’s very frustrating when you learn about a service two days before New Years and you find that it’s already been enabled on your phone.” But when a technology is installed and enabled on our phones without warning, the after-the-fact assurances that it’s all fine tend to be met with more skepticism than would be the case if it was done more openly.
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