Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing

Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by tiborsaas on Friday November 13, 2020 @07:57AM (#25081668)

But users also benefit from it. You can search for the contents of the images in your private gallery.

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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by f1refly on Friday November 13, 2020 @09:30AM (#25082492)

You mean like that one time when it tagged blacks as apes? I'm sure the users feel like they made a great deal.

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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by chronofar on Friday November 13, 2020 @10:00AM (#25082902)

Yes, let's cherry pick this one example to invalidate all ML strides in image recognition under the guise of racism, surely that seems reasonable.

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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by cwhiz on Friday November 13, 2020 @08:14AM (#25081791)

“private”

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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by rockengineer84 on Friday November 13, 2020 @08:39AM (#25081976)

has Google ever made your data public?

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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by manquer on Friday November 13, 2020 @09:20AM (#25082375)

Not private doesn't mean public.

Can google guarantee this data is not used to fuel their ad or other businesses in anyway ?

Can they guarantee US Law Enforcement Agencies(LEA) will not have access without due process and informing you ?

Can they guarantee LEAs from other countries will not given access to this data ?

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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by bobsoap on Friday November 13, 2020 @09:21AM (#25082387)

Private = only you, and no one else, not even Google.

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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by cwhiz on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:43PM (#25086510)

Google has had data leaks and hacks, yes. It’s not private unless you own it and control it.

If you send it to Google it is unequivocally not private.

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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by minikites on Friday November 13, 2020 @08:18AM (#25081835)

We benefit daily from all sorts of horrors, that's not a justification to keep doing horrors.

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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by tiborsaas on Friday November 13, 2020 @08:29AM (#25081906)

That's bit of a hyperbole. How is ML horror?

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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by minikites on Friday November 13, 2020 @08:35AM (#25081948)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveill...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/19/federal...

By providing ML training data, you're indirectly supporting the consolidation of power in the hands of the few who have the ability to surveil everyone and the physical might to enforce their will.

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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by Nasrudith on Friday November 13, 2020 @09:33AM (#25082526)

My urine like everyone else's contains potassium and can be used to create gunpowder - does this mean I am enabling terrorists to blow people up every time I take a leak?

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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by minikites on Friday November 13, 2020 @10:34AM (#25083307)

If you and millions of other people captured, packaged, and transmitted that urine to a central urine clearinghouse (similar to how Google Photos works), then yes. Innocuous activities can easily be made dangerous when those activities are centralized and scaled up to a level involving/affecting hundreds of millions of people.

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