Android Continues To Upload Your Photos Without Your Consent To Google After You Delete The Photos App
There they were, hundreds of photos I’d taken of my wife, my daughter, and me, grouped together by Google’s facial-recognition technology in the company’s Photos app, all snapped over the course of a little more than a month. The problem was, I’d deleted all of those pictures, and most distressing, I didn’t even have the Google Photos app on my phone.
This spring, when Google separated photos from Google Plus into its own dedicated app, I was intrigued by the possibility that the company had managed to create a better alternative to Yahoo’s Flickr for people who want something more robust than Facebook or Instagram, and encouraged by positive reviews from Gizmodo and other sites. As someone who shares a lot of photos semi-privately with family, Flickr has been a good solution since I convinced my largely non-Facebooking parents to have the Flickr app on their phones and I can share photos of my infant daughter with them — and only them — automatically through appropriate privacy settings.
But there were enough enticing features in Google’s new app that I had to see if it might work for me, so a day or two after it was released, I downloaded the app to my Android phone, took a couple of test photos, and began playing with both the app and the web site. Ultimately, despite liking the general feel of the app and a few of the algorithmic features, I decided to stick with Flickr because it serves its purpose well and I didn’t want to bother asking my parents to learn new tools. I uninstalled the app from my phone and moved on with life.
http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/blog/2015/07/google-photos-uploads-images-without-app.html
The author goes on to explain that this happens no matter what settings you change on your Android phone.
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