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By Julie Binoche
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You Can't Remove It Without Killing OneDrive. Here's the part that's likely to frustrate power users.
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Microsoft Isn't Alone in Doing This. Google did something similar not long ago, pushing the Gemini Nano AI model through Chrome updates…
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Microsoft just shipped a new Windows app most users didn't ask for. OneDrive Photos, which arrives via Windows Update or an OneDrive client update, scans and indexes local images…
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The app can detect images stored on a local drive without requiring a Microsoft account login at all.
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Here's the part that's likely to frustrate power users. OneDrive Photos is baked into OneDrive itself. You can't uninstall just the Photos app.
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It's a bundling move, basically. Microsoft has done this kind of thing before, folding new features into existing software so they're harder to opt out of without collateral…
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The timing is awkward. Microsoft already took a hit over its Recall feature — the AI tool that took rolling screenshots of user activity and stored them for searchable access.
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Google did something similar not long ago, pushing the Gemini Nano AI model through Chrome updates without much fanfare. So it's not just Microsoft.
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More context: Russia Charges Pavel Durov as Telegrams TON Ecosystem Faces Crypto Fallout
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Microsoft hasn't commented on the OneDrive Photos rollout. No statement, no blog post explaining the privacy architecture in detail, no timeline for what comes next.
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The People feature specifically is worth watching. It requires user consent, sure. But consent prompts buried in a new app that arrived through a Windows Update aren't exactly…
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Natural language search and OCR are genuinely useful features — no argument there. Being able to search your own photo library the way you'd search the web is something people…
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For now, the app is out. It's on Windows machines. The People feature needs consent to activate, the facial data is supposedly user-only, and the only way to remove the whole…
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Microsoft has not provided further detail on data handling practices tied to OneDrive Photos.
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