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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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[–] snrkl@lemmus.org 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It let's you run Google Photos without network permissions and with storage scopes limiting it to certain folders.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Does the photo search still work offline? It doesn't for me. That seems like it'd be the only reason to stick with that app if you're not using the cloud storage, otherwise I might as well just use a basic file browser.