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But users also benefit from it. You can search for the contents of the images in your private gallery.

You mean like that one time when it tagged blacks as apes? I'm sure the users feel like they made a great deal.

Yes, let's cherry pick this one example to invalidate all ML strides in image recognition under the guise of racism, surely that seems reasonable.

“private”

has Google ever made your data public?

Not private doesn't mean public.

Can google guarantee this data is not used to fuel their ad or other businesses in anyway ?

Can they guarantee US Law Enforcement Agencies(LEA) will not have access without due process and informing you ?

Can they guarantee LEAs from other countries will not given access to this data ?

Private = only you, and no one else, not even Google.

Google has had data leaks and hacks, yes. It’s not private unless you own it and control it.

If you send it to Google it is unequivocally not private.

We benefit daily from all sorts of horrors, that's not a justification to keep doing horrors.

That's bit of a hyperbole. How is ML horror?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveill...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/19/federal...

By providing ML training data, you're indirectly supporting the consolidation of power in the hands of the few who have the ability to surveil everyone and the physical might to enforce their will.

My urine like everyone else's contains potassium and can be used to create gunpowder - does this mean I am enabling terrorists to blow people up every time I take a leak?

If you and millions of other people captured, packaged, and transmitted that urine to a central urine clearinghouse (similar to how Google Photos works), then yes. Innocuous activities can easily be made dangerous when those activities are centralized and scaled up to a level involving/affecting hundreds of millions of people.

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