Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos

Re:Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored ... by flakeoil on Sunday September 25, 2022 @11:06AM (#32972030)

But at least people will notice the photo book and at least have one look through. And it might even be a great moment when family members together can look at it and discuss memories. And quite likely it will be kept by a descendant. And it can be found one day by their descendants.

The digital archive or cloud storage will likely in many cases not even be discovered. And if it is discovered, it will probably be such a load of images, good and bad, that no-one will have the time to really look it through and appreciate it.

But for sure, both options combined is probably best.

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Re:Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored ... by debaserab2 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @01:48PM (#32973913)

My gmail account has a deadman’s switch to grant full access to my next of kin.

If I had a gigabytes of photos of my grandparents or great grandparents I would spend hours pouring over them looking at what their life was like before I knew them. That would be such a neat keepsake.

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Re:Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored ... by hezralig on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:08PM (#32974861)

I hate to tell you this but many people have been locked out of their Google Accounts despite knowing the correct username/password combination. Their security policies and ML algo locks accounts and requires 2FA to be used from time to time. How confident are you that in your passing, your next of kin will be able to get into that account if 2FA or backup codes are inaccessible?

Given their is no real customer service team that handles their free tier accounts, I am personally reluctant to assume my Gdrive data will be salvageable.

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Re:Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored ... by debaserab2 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:39PM (#32975183)

According to the Google Inactive Account support page, they aren't actually assuming the account, they're just getting access to the data. So, presumably, they'd just download the data and that would be it.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en

(That's not to say there aren't other concerning reasons why that data may not be accessible.)

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Re:Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored ... by hezralig on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @03:31AM (#32992459)

That is lovely to know about. I was only aware of the dead mans switch feature which deletes data after a period of time.

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Re:Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored ... by vineyardmike on Sunday September 25, 2022 @02:42PM (#32974530)

I imagine someone may one day do the same for me, but sadly most of my photos are clogged with mundane screenshots and repeint pictures and other junk.

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Re:Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored ... by brokenmachine on Sunday September 25, 2022 @07:21PM (#32977497)

>gmail account has a deadman’s switch

How do you do this?

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Re:Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored ... by mrec on Sunday September 25, 2022 @08:14PM (#32977890)

https://myaccount.google.com/inactive

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Re:Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored ... by dazzawazza on Sunday September 25, 2022 @11:12AM (#32972079)

Don't worry, the images will be used to train an AI which will feed derivations of them into a replicant to keep them sane.

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