Google's new photo storage malarky

[baldrick]

Many people wll take advantage of googles new offering to store their photos and videos , but be sure you are understanding the fine print

When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones.

though a spokesperson has said

A Google spokesperson got in touch with us after publication to say: "Google Photos will not use images or videos uploaded onto Google Photos commercially for any promotional purposes, unless we ask for the user's explicit permission."

with automated photo recognition software advances over the years , I would still be wary about making so much of your life available on the internet in an unencrypted format

Tossed all your snaps into the new Google Photos? You read the terms, right? ... RIGHT? ? The Register

[thaimeme]

Most haven't a clue, but some have come to the conclusion that Google is the beast.

Beware.

[slackula]

Is Jeff concerned that Google's photo recognition software will start tagging pics of turds as him?

Some body put his mind at rest and tell him the software works on photos of faces, not personality.

[baldrick]

on photos of faces

there is the new faeces recognition software to be aware of - used in the aprehension of turd burgulars

[Norton]

Call me old fashioned but i keep all my stuff on local storage media.

Best way to go until a drive crashes.

[stroller]

be sure you are understanding the fine print

Similar terms for photobucket and other services.

[baldrick]

Best way to go until a drive crashes.

as NAS's start to gain traction you can add a drive to a relations/friends NAS and then mirror the backup drive ( encrypted ) via a VPN tunnel over 'tinternets

[jamescollister]

Get with the times, if you are on line in any way, internet, ATM, mobile phone, newer car [GPS] built in, facial recognition cameras, credit cards etc.
Some countries, electric, water, gas meters, you can't take a dump with out big brother knowing.
No where to hide now, live under a bridge, no electronic footprint, then your invisible.

[Gerbil]

Some body put his mind at rest and tell him the software works on photos of faeces, not personality.

Right up his alley then.

[beazalbob69]

The whole concern of privacy is mostly an older generation thing from a generation that actually had some expectation of privacy. The younger internet generations that grew up in a connected world not only don't care much about privacy but actually go out of their way to show everything to everyone.

Privacy is a moot point and will become something from a bygone era once the pre internet generations die off in the coming years.

[stroller]

Call me old fashioned but i keep all my stuff on local storage media.

Best way to go until a drive crashes.

Back up on memory cards and external storage is what I do.
Only problem is finding the stuff in the various boxes and drawers.

[baldrick]

do you have all 3 ?

[baldrick]

so you installed the new google photos app anyway

then you may as well know what you can do with it

16 cool things to try with the new Google Photos | Computerworld

use the face and object recognition and see what information your photos can reveal about you

6. Explore the crazy-powerful new search feature -- starting with face recognition

See that blue circular icon with a magnifying glass in your main photos list? Tap it. Tap it now. Trust me.
That icon takes you to Photos' search screen, which holds some of the app's coolest and most powerful features.
At the top of the search screen, you'll see the six most frequently photographed faces from your images. On mine, for instance, I see myself, my wife, my daughter, my brother, my mom, and my friend Andrew (who evidently wormed his way into enough photos to earn a spot in my top six -- sneaky bastard!). You can also see more faces by tapping the "More" link next to the word "People."
Tap any of those faces, and you'll see all of the photos -- or at least many of them -- in which that particular person appears. And here's what's crazy: Google says the app is able to track a person's face and continue to recognize it as they age over time. So in theory, at least, the current photos of my daughter as an infant will one day be grouped together with photos of her as a young child, a teenager (eek!), and an adult.
Spot a photo where it doesn't belong? It's bound to happen every now and then (though the recognition has been pretty close to spot-on in my experience so far). If it happens to you, simply tap the menu icon at the top-right of the screen, select "Remove results," then select the photos that shouldn't be present within any person's collection.

[jamescollister]

Reading between the lines, if you have a higher access, you can run facial recognition on all stored photo's.
World wide data base of faces and names.

[inthaiguy]

It's the service I've been waiting for, but yes, I see there is a price to pay.

[terry57]

Call me old fashioned but i keep all my stuff on local storage media.

Best way to go until a drive crashes.

Not old fashioned at all mate , I do exactly the same except back up all my Pictures on a hard drive.

Actually I back up my Pictures on two hard drives and have them stashed in my Safe.

[Evilbaz]

Hmmm - I guess we privacy respecters will die out soon leaving just the Look at Me generations.

But you wont get my photos - FCKU

[baldrick]

nothing wrong with "cloud"/NAS as long as it is an encrypted container with the key on your computer (256bit minimum) - there are some options for this now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...ackup_services

but the google version is easy and free