Subj : Re: Billions of cherished pho
To   : Mike Powell
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Sun Mar 09 2025 09:13:28

-=> Mike Powell wrote to All <=-

 MP>  TIN FOIL HAT ON! -- They want more people putting their digital photos
 MP> on the cloud so that "they" can more easily access them -- to steal
 MP> identities or do other nefarious things!   -- Mike

 MP> Billions of cherished photos at risk; only a third of Americans back up
 MP> their precious pics to the cloud

How many of those billion photos are "cherished"?

Kyle Cassidy, a photographer I admire, recommended taking your top 20
photos and printing them out. If you take one you like, replace one of
the 20 with it. I used to keep a line of picture wire in my office,
mounted 4x6 photos on backing paper and hung them on the line. I could
print them and switch them out at will that way. I miss doing that,
unfortunately I don't have the wall space any more.

Yeah, doing all sorts of image recognition on photos in the cloud is
nefarious -- I have photos in Google's cloud, and being able to search
photos by the names of items in the photos (not text in the photos) is
both intriguing and frightening.







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