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

submitted 1 week 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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[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I am told that Apple, DropBox, etc. have done this for years, often in the name of "fighting CSAM" or "helping you organize your photos". https://support.apple.com/en-us/108795 Agree that its a very good reason not to touch corporate cloud services and to not let people take digital photos of your face even if they promise not to share them! I do not trust any company with physical assets in the USA not to be penetrated by three-letter-organizations and data brokers.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (3 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

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

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

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