Google is in the business of you . That ’s why it exists . Its phones , Homes , and wireless router all subsist to cull as much selective information about you as possible so that it can then use that information for ( hopefully not evil ) fiscal increase . If you have forget that Google subsist to collate your full sprightliness , then Google pointedly reminded you today with some new features for Google Photos . It introduce two new features to the Google Photos app that right away makes it more objectionable and more present in your liveliness .
This first feature is Suggested Sharing . You know that irritating characteristic in Facebook that helpfully , constantly , remind you to share every damn thing you do ? label your champion in a picture ! TAG THEM ! Now Google Photos has something similar . Take a delineation of your roommate horfing down two hot dogs at once ? Google will scan that image , realize it ’s your roomy , and suggest a portion .
Gross .
And for hoi polloi you live with on a even , well-disposed basis , Google ’s introduced a second and possibly more pernicious feature , Shared Libraries . In the onstage example Google render off a husband and wife with a affiliated library that now deal pic of their kids from one program library to the other while dismiss the one of the husband in a gang . All the husband had to do was select images of his family that Google could recognize .
On a macro level that ’s unbelievable . The intelligence required in Google Photos to mechanically fulfil the feat of greet people and instantly divvy up photos of them finger reverence inspiring — even if Facebook does it already . But it ’s also a small terrifying . This is a constant , very well-disposed admonisher that Google is scanning every single photograph you put into Google Photos and learning about you .
Google Photos may have hinted at some of the creepiness in the yesteryear , but this newfangled shrewish functionality is a unrelenting reminder of just how much you give up to get great products . Until now Google Photos was just one of the best photo management apps for you sound . It was fast , sleek , and leave me the hell alone . I ’m gon na miss that app .
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