[moeedm]

I don't want Google's servers looking over my images and analyzing them. No thank you.

[tjr]

Then you can't put photos on the public web at all, right?

[middleclick]

This is pretty much what I try to do. I avoid people taking photographs of me altogether or if they do, I request them to not put them on Facebook or anywhere on the Internet. It usually works if you ask kindly.

[moeedm]

Well I choose what to put on the "public web". Unlimited photo storage means all your photos.

[tjr]

How would a user be forced to upload all of their photos? I have (allegedly) unlimited storage with Flickr, but I manually upload the photos that I choose.

[moeedm]

They're not forced to, they're tempted to. And most people will. From the presentation, it looks like as soon as you take a photo it's uploaded and backed up on Google's servers.

[joezydeco]

So what happens if you, say, XORed the entire image with 0xA5A5A5A5 and then uploaded it?

Seems Flickr doesn't really examine the image, just the extension (.gif, .jpg, etc). I wonder what Google plans to do.