Comment by barnabee
16 days ago
This is about additional new photo search capabilities that are enabled by default and powered by sending (encrypted) data derived from your photos to the cloud, not locally powered AI search.
16 days ago
This is about additional new photo search capabilities that are enabled by default and powered by sending (encrypted) data derived from your photos to the cloud, not locally powered AI search.
To be fair, it sounds like it's both. Local, AI powered 'neural hashing' + SHE
*Homomorphically encrypted. Be precise. Deliberately handwaving it away as "mere" encryption paints a worse picture than it actually is. Yes, possibly should have been opt-in, and a more human-friendly explanation of how it works would help. However, it's not nearly as bad as HN would have you believe. Very much a case of them pointing out that the emperor is naked, when in fact they have a few shirt buttons missing...
Fair point, and you are right that in theory this pretty much fully preserves privacy.
On the other hand, I am old enough and grumpy enough to still believe the correct number of connections an OS should make to the internet that aren't explicitly requested by the user taking an action or enabling a job/setting is zero ;-)