Comment by ricardobeat
1 month ago
No. The analysis in question is fully local, used for indexing photos by categories in the Photos app. It is unrelated to any cloud features and not something shared across users.
They are also not using your personal photos to feed the location database, most likely public sources and/or Apple Maps data. If they are relying on GPS-tagged public photos alone, you could probably mess up a system like this by spoofing GPS location en-masse and posting them online for years, but for what purpose?
Like I said, a good candidate for a "flushing action":
https://kozubik.com/items/FlushingAction/
Flood that system with garbage and let's see who gets upset and how they communicate their upset.
If the system is architected as advertised it shouldn't be a problem ...