Google has issued a critical privacy alert for its 1.5 billion Google Photos users following accusations of using personal images to train AI models without consent. The controversy erupted from privacy-focused rival Proton, which speculated that Google’s advanced Nano Banana AI tool scans user libraries for data. Google has quickly denied the claims, emphasizing robust safeguards for user content.
Fears have mounted as Google rapidly expands artificial intelligence in Photos to include features such as Nano Banana, which turns any image into an animation. Using the feature is fun, but critics note that it processes photos via cloud servers, which raises concerns about data retention and possible misuse. Incidents like last year’s Google Takeout bug, which made other people’s videos appear in the exports of those downloading their data, have fed skepticism about the security of the platform.
Google explained that, unless users explicitly share photos and videos, the company does not use personal photos or videos to train generative AI models like Gemini. It also acknowledged that Photos does not have end-to-end encryption but instead conducts automated scans for child exploitation material and professional reviews. This transparency aims at rebuilding trust as
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