---
title: "They See Your Photos"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/they-see-your-photos-dgydgq2gx
source_url: https://theyseeyourphotos.com/
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-12-14T23:14:52.886Z
updated: 2024-12-14T23:15:02.083Z
tags: ["security", "ai", "privacy"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 83
comments: 13
language: en
---

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# They See Your Photos

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 83 upvotes · 13 comments

## Summary

Photos can reveal significant private information. An experiment demonstrated using Google Vision API to uncover the story behind a single photo and the types of data that can be extracted.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@enzon3** · 9 upvotes

> ### *warning: incoming yap session, leave if you do not like text walls.*
>
> Tried this for myself, took a selfie; the result is pretty mediocre. I turned off the location information and skewed the date back to the lowest I could. The description of the image generated by Google is nothing notable, as it is just looking at me and my surroundings, all visible to the camera. It got fooled by the date I put in, and there was no location box in the site unlike with the demo image. (because there was no loc info in the image itself) Given that this information is gained through Google's Vision API,...

**@thecookingsenpai** · 2 upvotes

> Storing everything locally since some time and I feel perfectly fine. Just a 100ish $ zimablade with 2tb + 2tb (backup) SSDs and Nextcloud.

**@atybdot** · 1 upvotes

> this is crazzy

**@alexagboolafullstack** · 1 upvotes

> Santa...?

**@harshlangalia** · 0 upvotes

> The details are really wild but how are they doing it from just one photo I mean it also showed the targeted ads; it is really something to take care about.

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Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy)

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