Comment by Klonoar Comment by Klonoar 10 months ago 6 replies Copy Link View on Hacker News They are not sending your actual photo, as has been covered at length on numerous threads on this very site.
Copy Link gigel82 10 months ago Collapse Comment - That's irrelevant if the information they do send is sufficient to deduce "Eiffel tower" or "dog" out of it: that's too much information to send. Reply View | 5 replies Copy Link GeekyBear 10 months ago Parent Collapse Comment - They don't have to send anything since they do all the image recognition on the user's own device.Sending everything to a server is, however, how Google's service works. Reply View | 4 replies Copy Link gigel82 10 months ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - No they don't, the whole reason for Homomorphic encryption is sending stuff out of your device.You don't need any encryption to process locally. Reply View | 3 replies Copy Link GeekyBear 10 months ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - The erroneous claim was that Apple handles image recognition and image search on servers, the way Google does.Apple handles those tasks on the users own device(s) for privacy reasons. Reply View | 2 replies 2 more replies
Copy Link GeekyBear 10 months ago Parent Collapse Comment - They don't have to send anything since they do all the image recognition on the user's own device.Sending everything to a server is, however, how Google's service works. Reply View | 4 replies Copy Link gigel82 10 months ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - No they don't, the whole reason for Homomorphic encryption is sending stuff out of your device.You don't need any encryption to process locally. Reply View | 3 replies Copy Link GeekyBear 10 months ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - The erroneous claim was that Apple handles image recognition and image search on servers, the way Google does.Apple handles those tasks on the users own device(s) for privacy reasons. Reply View | 2 replies 2 more replies
Copy Link gigel82 10 months ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - No they don't, the whole reason for Homomorphic encryption is sending stuff out of your device.You don't need any encryption to process locally. Reply View | 3 replies Copy Link GeekyBear 10 months ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - The erroneous claim was that Apple handles image recognition and image search on servers, the way Google does.Apple handles those tasks on the users own device(s) for privacy reasons. Reply View | 2 replies 2 more replies
Copy Link GeekyBear 10 months ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - The erroneous claim was that Apple handles image recognition and image search on servers, the way Google does.Apple handles those tasks on the users own device(s) for privacy reasons. Reply View | 2 replies 2 more replies
That's irrelevant if the information they do send is sufficient to deduce "Eiffel tower" or "dog" out of it: that's too much information to send.