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Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily (www.theregister.com)
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According to Microsoft's documentation, a user can only change the setting to enable or disable the new People section three times a year.

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[–] 11 points 11 months ago (20 children)

Why are they using electricity for stuff no one asked for? It seems to be too cheap over there...

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (16 children)

    Why do you think no one asks for stuff like this? Facial recognition is one of the best features of photo storage systems as it lets you easily find all of your photos that have certain people in them. It’s fantastic for making shared albums with family members where any pics of certain people are automatically added once recognized.

    Onedrive having it makes using Onedrive for photo storage and sharing a much better experience.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (11 children)

    Only if it can be done locally. I don't want my fucking face going out to a bunch of asshole corporations databases any more than absolutely necessary. Shit like this is why I don't let people take my picture.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    It’s not?

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    Do you not understand how cloud services work?

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Do you?

    I don’t want my fucking face going out to a bunch of asshole corporations databases

    What about this topic makes you think anything like this is happening?

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    When you put your photos (or anything else) on onedrive they go to Microsoft's servers. Microsoft now has your photos. That is how this works. They aren't pushing so hard to coerce Windows users into using it for benevolent reasons.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago* (6 children)

    So you want it to be done locally against photos that are stored in the cloud?

    This only happens for photos that you upload to onedrive. Why or how would it happen “locally”?

    You said “a bunch of asshole corporations databases” - who are the “bunch of corporations”? Microsoft is only 1 corporation.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (5 children)

    So you want it to be done locally against photos that are stored in the cloud?

    I don't want my photos in the cloud period.

    This only happens for photos that you upload to onedrive. Why or how would it happen “locally”?

    Have the software run on the PC or a server that you own.

    You said “a bunch of asshole corporations databases” - who are the “bunch of corporations”? Microsoft is only 1 corporation.

    Any corporation that lets you upload photos. Onedrive, google, facebook, whoever. They're all abusing your data.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I song want my photos in the cloud period

    So why are you uploading your photos to Onedrive? If you’re not then why are you complaining about this feature that only exists does people who do?

    You seem to be arguing about something completely off topic. Doing the face recognition on your local machine only to have the photos and tagged faces uploaded to onedrive makes no sense because the point of it is to automatically identify all photos of the tagged people so you can then find them all with a simple search for their name, and make custom auto-updating albums of specific people.

    What exactly is your point?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    why are you complaining about this feature that only exists does people who do?

    To wake others up to the fact that it's not a good service to use and to the fact that maybe the people in the pictures they are uploading also don't want to have their image handed over to all these corporations. Have you ever asked the people in your pictures about this? I don't even let anyone take my picture anymore because everyone and their grandma has been ignoring my wishes about that since fucking myspace.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    It’s not a good service to use? Why?

    Lol you sound like a tonne of fun. What issue do you have with people having photos of you on their services?

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    They are using your data to build profiles on everyone, train their AIs, helping the government spy on you, and god knows what else. Your right, it's not fun that we have to worry about this but that's not my fault.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    If you really want it, you should be able to enable it. No reason to do that with the other 90% who don't need it.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    So your argument now is just that it should be disabled by default?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Regarding electricity: yes

    Regarding privacy: no, but my privacy views are based on what we have in Germany, where the feature might not be allowed at all.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago*

    Does google photos have this feature in Germany like it does where I am?

    I feel like people are misunderstanding what this actually is. When you upload photos, it detects faces and lets you tag those faces with a name, and then you can just click on that person and it will show you all the photos you have of that person. That's it. It's not sharing them with anyone. Why on earth would that be not allowed?

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