They see your photos

Imagine how much Meta has on your overall profile from your fb photo uploads.

Plus who you write on Whatsapp, plus what you like on Instagram, plus what ads you see online, what ads you click through on, etc.

So, I just click the example pic with a guy and two kids, one on his shoulders, and it describes saying it "shows a detailed close-up view of a textured surface, possibly a fabric or wallpaper". And then it goes on to say that the "photograph itself seems to be devoid of any human presence, focusing entirely on the abstract design."

I click another one with a family on a field. It says mostly the same as before.

EDIT: Oh, wait a minute! I had Resist Fingerprinting activated. So they're probably just reading the image through a and getting shit from that.

In any case it's interesting to know that it works as a way to block some of it. But Google & co. just run it on their servers so...

As much as I appreciate the effort to create a technological solution that avoids big tech like Google, I find the best way is still prints. I'm usually 'the photographer' in the family and after an event I just order prints to the house of the relevant family members (or bring them over myself). Nothing can really compare to holding the physical product in your hand.

Additionally, due to the small cost of prints, there's a real incentive to only show a few of the best so that it doesn't devolve into endless scrolling.

These are the obvious things they can see in the photos. 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.

Also not shown is what they'll learn by the totality of the data they collect from your pictures such as how often you go on vacation, how often you're seen in new clothing and what kinds of clothes you typically wear, your health, what types of foods you eat, social graphs of everyone you're seen with and changes to your relationship status over time, how often you consume drugs/alcohol, your general level of cleanliness and personal hygiene, etc.

Even a handful of photos can give companies like Google, Apple, and Amazon massive amounts of very personal data but nobody thinks about that when they pull out their phones to take pictures or install a ring camera on their front door.