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Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/13/microsoft_face_grouping_ondrive/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50937777

According to Microsoft's documentation, a user can only change the setting to enable or disable the new People section three times a year.

floofloof @lemmy.ca - 2mon

However, it is that seemingly arbitrary three-times-a-year limit applied to the People section that is most concerning. Why not four? Why not as many times as a user wants?

Possibly because deleting or recreating the data is resource-intensive on the servers. It might actually be a good sign that Microsoft really removes the data, not just mark it inactive, when you turn the feature off.

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herseycokguzelolacak - 2mon

Fuck Microsoft. I'm not using OneDrive.

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gezero @lemmy.bowyerhub.uk - 2mon

It's 3 because

On Off On

Now wait 1 year

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ganymede - 2mon

exactly

default: on

user: explicitly turns off

random "update": defaults back on

Now wait 1 year

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hetzlemmingsworld @lemmings.world - 2mon

"Microsoft OneDrive is rolling out AI face recognition for your photos." To disable (for now), go to Privacy & Permissions → People section. (if you are in EU, maybe it is deactivated by default) source: https://x.com/ProtonDrive/status/1978109833690665463

#microsoft #onedrive #privacy #ai

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FreddiesLantern @leminal.space - 2mon

Oh man am I gonna double down on deleting my MS stuff. Gj guys!

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