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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live
(www.forbes.com)
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this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2026
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It's also opt in. Although I'd be surprised if anyone commenting here is actually using google photos in the first place.
For now.
I've been dragging my feet moving to grapheneOS, but shit like this is going to encourage me to make the jump sooner than later
Join us, it just works.
Backing up/transferring stuff is my only roadblock
There'll be quite a few of us. I have no idea of the actual demographics or whatever, but a lot of people are here just because they got shafted by reddit one too many times.
Do we really trust Google's word though? They already use machine learning on your photos to support the search feature