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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live (www.forbes.com)
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Google confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation. That means Gemini seeing who you know and what you do. You likely have tens or hundreds of thousands of photos. They’re all exposed if you update.

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[–] snrkl@lemmus.org 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It let's you run Google Photos without network permissions and with storage scopes limiting it to certain folders.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Does the photo search still work offline? It doesn't for me. That seems like it'd be the only reason to stick with that app if you're not using the cloud storage, otherwise I might as well just use a basic file browser.

[–] snrkl@lemmus.org 1 points 1 day ago

I don't upload my photos to the cloud, and don't use the search function. It's just a photo library app on the phone. It seems to do a better job of post processing the pics from my Pixel, which is why in use it.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I use google photos to pull up old pics that have already been uploaded for a long time. Google photos requires you to share your entire library otherwise it doesn't let you view photos from the cloud, but GOS let's you tell google photos that you're sharing your whole library when you actually aren't. Google doesn't have access to any of my new pics but I can still view all my old stuff.