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What cloud service are you putting your images on? I would be shocked if google photos hasn’t already been doing this.
Cloud services doing this isn't the problem and they are already doing it. The problem is your device doing this. Imagine if your Tesla reported back to Tesla who was in your car and sent that to the authorities if they thought someone in your car was "illegal".
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What cloud service are you putting your images on? I would be shocked if google photos hasn’t already been doing this.
Why do you need to put your images on a cloud service at all? Just use a spare disk.
How to complain: don't buy an iphone next time you need a new phone
- not enough people even know about this issue, understand the consequences or remember to act on it the next time a new phone is due - not enough alternatives on the market, and we're probably already boycotting them for other reasons - even with lower sales a company might not see the cause-and-effect
There is a general trend in the industry to take all kinds of liberties with user data. There is pressure on companies to do something about bad things happening in their clouds. Machine learning folks want to apply their tools to big data and the corpus of everyone's photos is probably nice to work with.
So we would have to tackle these issues on a larger scale.
Is it ok nowadays to use github for pamphlets, "open letters" (that aren't letters), and other social media and polemic content to protest against privacy invasion of all things?
I signed this, but I'm very doubtful this will ever achieve something. But this made me wonder: is there an history of people complaining about this sort of things and actually achieving something? I think this might have happened with MSFT's hailstorm/passport, where in the end industry opposition meant the project was abandoned, but I can't recall other instances.
The WASP did it to bring the browser vendors to comply to web standards, Netscape ans MS back then. In the EU you could make the case that user group lobbying influenced regulation.
I signed this, but I'm very doubtful this will ever achieve something. But this made me wonder: is there an history of people complaining about this sort of things and actually achieving something? I think this might have happened with MSFT's hailstorm/passport, where in the end industry opposition meant the project was abandoned, but I can't recall other instances.
One of the few tiny (and now seemingly completely void) victories I remember was the PIII processor serial number (1999): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10106870
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What cloud service are you putting your images on? I would be shocked if google photos hasn’t already been doing this.
You don't need the cloud: syncthing can sync your phone and your computer together without any issues. No nasty cloud provider involved: https://syncthing.net/
I was actually looking to buy the new iPhone should they add back TouchID, but this has been quite the turnoff. Are Pixel phones the only android phones that allow you to do secure boot with non stock images and basically long term cripple phone functionality once its unlocked?
Fairphone allows re-locking the bootloader with the /e/ rom flashed.
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You don't need the cloud: syncthing can sync your phone and your computer together without any issues. No nasty cloud provider involved: https://syncthing.net/
You can even sync to $nasty_cloud_provider and don't provide the syncthing password. Problem solved!