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Microsoft OneDrive lets you disable AI face recognition three times in a year! (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 3 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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if the off switch works yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm9KnhCB0oc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251012-microsoft-lets-you-disable-ai-face-recognition-three-times-a-year - podcast

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Apple does not look at your data. Several years ago they announced plans to scan for “harmful content” and quickly abandoned it when watchdogs called them out on the plan being a horrendous privacy violation.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/08/31/apple-provides-detailed-reasoning-behind-abandoning-iphone-csam-detection

[–] Reach_the_man@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

didn't they recent-ish have a "oops, you weren't supposed to see that we're making backups of your deleted photos, sry not sry" incident?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

Dont know about that incident, but that is different than scanning for csam which is different than scanning for faces which is different from feeding your images into an genAI training set.

You could think that they are doing all this anyway (which I think the AI only companies do btw, vut doubt the bigger ones do, esp Apple).

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

It does look like the facial recognition in the support.apple.com link is opt-in!