Recommended Open Source Alternative: https://photoprism.org/
They changed that a couple of years ago.
> "you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services"
Re:Photograph Your Work
by wlesieutre on Monday January 07, 2019 @10:55AM
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Any photos you sync to Google can be publicly displayed for google's promotional purposes?
That doesn't sound great.
" The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. "
Introducing the worlds largest stock photography service "GOOGLE Stock Photography". So inclusive, it probably has many of the photo's you have taken in the last few years!!!
> ""By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.""