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Wed Jan 18, 2023, 11:17 PM

Jan 2023

https://eclecticlight.co/2023/01/18/is-apple-checking-images-we-view-in-the-finder/

Is Apple checking images we view in the Finder?

This guy did some pretty exhaustive testing.

Conclusions

There is no evidence that local images on a Mac have identifiers computed and uploaded to Apple’s servers when viewed in Finder windows.

Local images that are viewed in QuickLook Preview undergo normal analysis for Live Text, and text recognition where possible, but that doesn’t generate identifiers that could be uploaded to Apple’s servers.

Images viewed in apps supporting VLU have neural hashes computed, and those are uploaded to Apple’s servers to perform look up and return its results to the user, as previously detailed.

VLU can be disabled by disabling Siri Suggestions in System Settings > Siri & Spotlight, as previously explained.

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