Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live

submitted by steel_for_humans to degoogle 51 points | 5 comments https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/04/20/google-starts-scanning-all-your-photos-as-new-update-goes-live/

Google wants its AI to see all the photos of “you and your loved ones.” Billions of users must now decide.

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Kinda creepy. I was about to migrate to Immich, fortunately I’m not in the US, so I don’t get that update yet. It does seem like a lost battle, anyway :( Even if I migrate to a privacy-respecting FOSS solution, my friends, family, acquaintances and random people around me will not (well, some may). I will still be featured in their photos out of my control.