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Re: They see your photos

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Post by superb_dev »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #50
buildbot wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you suggesting that all photo printing labs secretly keep copies of their clients photos (including professional photographers selling prints worth thousands) and reselling them as their own? I don’t think that any website terms are going to make that okay? I understand this in how Instagram and Facebook terms read, that they can sublicense your images, and I’m not a lawyer, but sublicense doesn’t mean resell as…

I used to think like you do... up to around 2015 or so. Then I had to answer the question "how can this possibly be happening?" over a hundred times since. I now ask, "why wouldn't it be happening?" Uncle Sam has the deepest pockets in history. Every piece of commercial software is indeed hoarding anything it can get on you. Your employer is probably selling your pay stubs. The world has changed. Anyway John Oliver h…

Your employer is definitely selling your paystubs to their HRS provider. I believe it’s default for most HRS providers

Re: They see your photos

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Post by popcalc »

JimDabell wrote: post #31
internetter wrote: post #27

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> Not shown are the various assumptions they'll make about you based on your photos such as: gay, likely uneducated, high income earner, most likely republican, narcissistic, etc. I uploaded a photo of myself as a child and based on the house in the background, the brand of shoes on my feet, and the clothes my dad was wearing, it flagged me as “middle class”, so at least one part of your claim is incorrect. I suspect…

I uploaded a race photo and it said that I appeared economically comfortable because I was wearing running gear like a hydration pack.

Sounds reasonable.

Re: They see your photos

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Post by phoronixrly »

ycuser2 wrote: post #62
phoronixrly wrote: post #47

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Terrible search without AI is a bit of a stretch. Also Google does not have a monopoly on object/face recognition in photos. There are self-hosted solutions that readily provide you with that without feeding a faceless AI with your photos while boiling the ocean.

Could you please tell some? I am about to switch to a self-hosted solution.

I am very very happy with immich. See the other commenter's response for many more.

Re: They see your photos

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Post by autoexec »

buildbot wrote: post #48
mixmastamyk wrote: post #32

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Almost* all of them. At the very least its worth hoarding until an opportunity comes up. [*] Reduced from all.

Are you suggesting that all photo printing labs secretly keep copies of their clients photos (including professional photographers selling prints worth thousands) and reselling them as their own? I don’t think that any website terms are going to make that okay? I understand this in how Instagram and Facebook terms read, that they can sublicense your images, and I’m not a lawyer, but sublicense doesn’t mean resell as…

They don't have to "resell" the photos "as their own". It's the data you hand over to them, including the data in your pictures, which is theirs. I'm sure if Facebook decided to sell a book with one of your pictures on the cover, or if they put your personal photo on a mug and those mugs were then being sold at walmart their terms of service and privacy policies would allow for that, but that doesn't mean that there wouldn't be lawsuits and bad press as a result, which makes those kinds of scenarios unlikely.

More likely they'd sell your photos to third parties who wouldn't make products out of them. Those third parties would just extract as much information as they could out of them and then use that data.

You would never see it happening so you'd never know who to be angry at or when to be upset by it. That data would later be used to manipulate you, take more of your money, assign you into specific categories/castes, etc. but even if you were aware those things happened, you'd never be aware that facebook or your photo was a factor. Facebook gets an extra income stream and you're totally unaware.

Re: They see your photos

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Post by Koffiepoeder »

ycuser2 wrote: post #62
phoronixrly wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Terrible search without AI is a bit of a stretch. Also Google does not have a monopoly on object/face recognition in photos. There are self-hosted solutions that readily provide you with that without feeding a faceless AI with your photos while boiling the ocean.

Could you please tell some? I am about to switch to a self-hosted solution.

https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries

Re: They see your photos

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Post by panarky »

GeekyBear wrote: post #65
IshKebab wrote: post #21

This is just an ad for their photo service. Which presumably has terrible search features, if it doesn't use AI to analyse them. That's one of the best features in Google Photos!

How do you opt out of Google updating your user/advertising profile based on information they glean from your photos?

"Google Photos doesn't sell your photos, videos, or personal information to anyone and we don't use your photos and videos for advertising."

https://safety.google/photos/

Re: They see your photos

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Post by samatman »

fsflover wrote: post #64
srockets wrote: post #56

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Apple Photos in iCloud can also be E2E encrypted (though not by default: you have to explicitly enable that), are indexed locally, and Apple's pricing for storage is about half of this service.

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If there were one flag you can set to make all actions Telegram takes E2E (there isn't) this analogy would make sense (it doesn't).

Re: They see your photos

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Post by autoexec »

superb_dev wrote: post #71
mixmastamyk wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to think like you do... up to around 2015 or so. Then I had to answer the question "how can this possibly be happening?" over a hundred times since. I now ask, "why wouldn't it be happening?" Uncle Sam has the deepest pockets in history. Every piece of commercial software is indeed hoarding anything it can get on you. Your employer is probably selling your pay stubs. The world has changed. Anyway John Oliver h…

Your employer is definitely selling your paystubs to their HRS provider. I believe it’s default for most HRS providers

I know my employer is selling my data to all kinds of third parties. Microsoft is collecting my info through my required use of Outlook and Windows. Confluence has my data. Salesforce has my data. My company even uses linkedin for certain trainings which means they are getting some of my data. I've explicitly avoided some of these companies because I didn't want them to have my information, but my work insists of handing out my data like candy, often before I'm made aware and can even object to it.

My company isn't even always paid directly for it, but it's factored into the costs of the software and services they pay third parties to provide. Many businesses are willing to give my company a deal in order to make sure that employee data gets into their hands/databases.

Re: They see your photos

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

8note wrote: post #70

i gave it a picture of making some meatballs, and it didnt capture the interesting parts. a) it didnt catch that they were made of ground pork and not beef b) it didnt realize that the inconsistent browning and look of the fat was from butter browing the breadcrumbs and flour c) it didnt realize that the surrounding on the pan was bits of browned meat that fell off while rolling, instead claiming it was garlic or her…

I put in photos of someone spreading their butt cheeks on a hotel bed and it said it was a "casual" setting.

Re: They see your photos

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Post by gpjt »

Hizonner wrote: post #20

It'd be more terrifying if it didn't hallucinate earrings on somebody whose ears are out of frame , make comments about the left shoe of a barefoot child being out of focus, and so forth...

Heh. We have some of those Harry Potter style "floating" candles hanging above our dining table right now. I uploaded a photo that included them prominently -- it gave a great description of everything else in the room but ignored them completely. I was imagining it thinking desperately "don't hallucinate floating candles, don't hallucinate floating candles".
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