3mo ago

Google Starts Scanning Your Photos—3 Billion Users Must Now Decide

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At the time, Google assured me that SafetyCore was an enabling framework and would not actually start scanning photos or other content.
I audibly snorted at this.
Well that time has now come and it starts with Google Messages. As reported by 9to5Google, “Google Messages is rolling out Sensitive Content Warnings that blur nude images on Android.”
I know whenever my phone announces of its own accord that it’s figured out that an image on my phone is a nude, the first word that comes to mind is “safe.”
Unhinged behaviour that we just supposed to accept becuase a mega corpo is doing it?
I have started to leave google. Can I ask them to remove any scanned data?
- You can ask, but I doubt they'll do it, even if they say they do.
George Orwell was off by a few decades, it seems.
- While I understand your point, the biggest misconception about the 1984 book is that it's mainly about surveillance — it's about manipulation of words, e.g. Ministry of "Peace".
  
  The words led to the acceptance of the surveillance.
  
  While I understand your point, it was never implied in my comment that 1984 is mainly about surveillance — in fact, it implicitly drew a parallel to the fictional setting of 1984, e.g. "the dystopian future wherein total surveillance to control the narrative" appearing to have become reality.

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