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Google Photos may be uploading your pics, even if you don’t want it to

Posted on July 14, 2015 by pogowasright.org

David A. Arnott reports:

There they were, hundreds of photos I’d taken of my wife, my daughter, and me, grouped together by Google’s facial-recognition technology in the company’s Photos app, all snapped over the course of a little more than a month. The problem was, I’d deleted all of those pictures, and most distressing, I didn’t even have the Google Photos app on my phone.

Read more on Upstart Business Journals.

Thanks to Joe Cadillic for this link.

 

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