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All your photos are being scanned - Reject Convenience (youtu.be)

submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@toast.ooo to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] devaly@ani.social 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

doesn't matter, if any ill intended app on your phone has gallery permissions, as shown in the video, they are able to scrape the data trove. like: Reddit, Insta, Tiktok...

So even if you use immich instead of google photos or Apple cloud you are not safe enough...

[–] siravious@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Good point. I’ve been limiting access photo by photo for something I want to share vs whole album. The mechanics are doing this have gotten better overtime though it’s still not perfect.