alt Hacker NewsOneDrive on some Samsung phones recently started uploading user photos on their own, despite user never granting apps the permission to do so:
https://www.reddit.com/r/samsunggalaxy/comments/1t7vqr8/why_...
I am getting tired of all these nonsense.
At this point, Samsung may be shipping more malware than anyone else on phones
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microtonal • today at 12:22 PM
It's sad. Samsung phones with just One UI + Good Lock and without all the crapware would actually be a pretty good phone.
But as long as consumers continue buying, nothing will ever change.
Some 7 months ago there was this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45551504 (Microsoft's OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users)).
I haven't noticed any further links regarding this topic. Thus I have no idea if setting was fully implemented or abandoned but with this thread here you linked, but I'd rather guess they're full after user's data. And from what users wrote there, MS is not even doing this with some elaborated darkpatterns scenarios but just ordinary stealing these photos. This should be announced louder.