deGoogle

I already removed it a couple of weeks ago, because:

• Get the fuck out of my phone you trash panda of a software company.
• You're not wasting my battery power, my network, and my cellular data, just to fulfill some spy crap.
• Don't change things on my phone without my consent, same reason I left Windows, odd parallels there too...without consent...
• But mostly, this tech isn't just about detecting bad photos. This tech can be targeted on any kind of photo.

The same issues popped up when Apple said they were going to put such scanners in iOS and received blowback (as to if they did or not though, I have a screenshot I'm trying to find of an image scanner running sometime late last year to do some deep diving, but I've not found it yet.)

It is basically the classic government overreach trope done by a corporation. "For the children!"

Steps:

• Find an excuse to put something bad in machines under the guise of some protected class everyone agrees should be protected.
• Wait until it is normalized and people don't think about it anymore.
• Reconfigure it to hunt for what you want on demand.
  • Want to find out who all has been to a recent protest? Configure the image scanner to return pings from protest signs.
  • Looking for people that have been around a particular "person of interest"? Send out a query to receive pings back where that person's face was detected in their photos.
  • Looking for people of a certain race in a certain geolocation? Send out a query for certain skin colors in recent photos and wait for those pings back, with GPS geotags, of course.

They don't even need the photo, just "evidence" to start going after people and "detaining" them.

This. Shit. Is. Pure. Evil.