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Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2025
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Where's the "Apple is the only tech giant that respects your privacy" crowd? Just because your data isn't being publicly auctioned doesn't mean they aren't harvesting it and infringing on your privacy.
It's not data harvesting if it works as claimed. The data is sent encrypted and not decrypted by the remote system performing the analysis.
From the link:
Wait, what?
So you take a pic, it's analysed, the analysis is encrypted, encrypted data is sent to a server that can deconstruct encrypted data to match known elements in a database, and return a result, encrypted, back to you?
Doesn't this sort of bypass the whole point of encryption in the first place?
Edit: Wow! Thanks everyone for the responses. I've found a new rabbit hole to explore!
Maybe they "encrypt" it in jpg? XD