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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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Does it matter what we do? There's definitely some family member, friend, colleague who has taken a picture of you and your likeness will be processed.
It's like people tagging you in Facebook pictures even if you don't have an account, but worse, because that was an active step. This is fully automated.
Deal with the stuff you have control over. You'll never remove it all, but remove what you still can.
Hah, I'm good then.
I'm a vampire.
Actually only DSLRs use mirrors. Every other camera can see you Nightwalker
Yeah, we are all fucked. I'm still not going to give Google my data willingly.