Institutions of that nature are incapable of following through on nearly any promise made to the public at large; every promise is a lie, whether they break it or not, because they can't be said to have the intention to uphold it.
I see no reason not to believe that Page and Brin sincerely desired Google not to be evil; but it's the institution decides to do evil, not any individual, so they did not have (or could not maintain, as the organization scaled) the power to guarantee this. No one does.
It immediately presented me with a screen with the choice to "save originals to cloud or save a compressed version to the cloud" (I don't recall the exact words) with no option to not upload to the cloud, and then immediately started uploading my library.
I scrolled back and checked some pre-2015 photos, they look fine, and then deleted the app.
Maybe they store physical photos and the albums got soaked in water. Sadly it happened to all our 90s photo albums during a flood. Some of the photos were stained really bad.
I uploaded a photo to google maps. A week later it found some random picture of a local park and offered up a notification suggesting that I upload this photo to the destination it had located in the maps app.
How on earth are they doing this without "scanning" the photo? Seriously, please tell me.
A typical feature of these cloud drives is automatic uploading of pictures from the camera roll, that’s the legitimate use case for demanding access to all pictures. Who knows when Google whoops! accidentally makes that the default. You know, it’s optional, you can just turn it off!
