Upload your photo and get a thorough, three-paragraph description of it. //

wanted to develop an alternative service for storing and sharing photos that is open source and end-to-end encrypted. Something “more private, wholesome, and trustworthy,” he says. The paid service he designed, Ente, is profitable and says it has more than 100,000 users, many of whom are already part of the privacy-obsessed crowd. But Mohandas struggled to articulate to wider audiences why they should reconsider relying on Google Photos, despite all the conveniences it offers.

Then one weekend in May, an intern at Ente came up with an idea: Give people a sense of what some of Google’s AI models can learn from studying images. Last month, Ente launched https://Theyseeyourphotos.com, a website and marketing stunt designed to turn Google’s technology against itself. People can upload any photo to the website, which is then sent to a Google Cloud computer vision program that writes a startlingly thorough three-paragraph description of it. (Ente prompts the AI model to document small details in the uploaded images.)

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42Kodiak42 said:
Remember, a big enough privacy violation also constitutes a grave security vulnerability.
Technically, any privacy violation constitutes a grave security vulnerability.

Remember, confidentiality is one of the five fundamental security tenants, and it defends against unauthorized disclosure. When you violate privacy, you are committing an unauthorized disclosure.

For the record, the five fundamental security tenants are:

• Confidentiality, which defends against unauthorized disclosure of a protected asset.
• Integrity, which defends against unauthorized modification of a protected asset.
• Availability, which defends against denial of authorized access to a protected asset.
• Authenticity, which defends against spoofing, forgery, and repudiation of a protected asset.
• Access-Control, which defends against unauthorized access of a protected asset.