Do you use the Google Photos app on your smartphone and at the same time care a lot about your privacy? Then according to the latest news, you should beware. Apparently, Google can use data from recorded images to record your location, even if you don't care about location tracking.
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Phone Arena reported earlier this week that Google is trying to use images that users upload to the Google Photos app to estimate their location and history. The Location History function used to serve this purpose, but Google disabled it. Instead, however, he began to use the so-called estimated location - this is where the system tries to deduce from elements in photos and videos.
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If you click on your profile icon in the top right corner of the Google Photos application and select Settings -> Location, you may notice in the Location Sources section that Google allows its own location estimation based on data such as landmarks and other landmarks. Fortunately, you can turn off the estimated missing position directly in the application by deactivating the corresponding item, and you can manage the estimated position to change it for individual images by tapping View and manage estimated locations. If you decide to deactivate the location and erase it for existing photos as well, you will of course only lose the relevant data, not the photos themselves.
Users of the Google Photos app on iOS or Android will have the option to keep or delete estimated locations before May 1. If you don't decide by then, Google will automatically remove existing estimated locations from the Photos app on or after that date.
And isn't it punishable by Google?? Violate sucromium without someone giving him permission?
So get them covered, go for it!
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This is something I don't understand...everyone is going to lynch Apple, that the offer of "personalized" advertising in the AppStore, but Google and Meta personally report the theft constantly, and almost no one solves it. Instead of addressing this abuse of personal data, the EU prefers to force it Apple, to enable sideloading…
You should all realize that Google is not stealing anything, because in the Google Photos terms of service you clearly agree to what Google then does with that data. it is therefore only the decision of each user whether they agree with this or not. the only way to express your disagreement is not to use these services. You can live perfectly fine without them. google photos, Apple photos of other clouds are completely unnecessary.
Yes, I understand... but honestly, who do I want to read those terms and conditions to? I use Apple photos, so it doesn't concern me... I just hate the approach...
@ Niekto: … well, neither they nor AF are "without defects", the content analysis is also carried out there, in general, every such cloud has something ;(