Microsoft has slowly been rolling out a new feature for OneDrive that lets the app scan photos and recognize common faces using data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-redirect=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/artificial-intelligence” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence”>AI for almost two years, but this week it was discovered that the feature itself might only be disable-able by the user up to three times a year.
First spotted by data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0238213/microsofts-onedrive-begins-testing-face-recognizing-ai-for-photos-for-some-preview-users” data-url=”https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0238213/microsofts-onedrive-begins-testing-face-recognizing-ai-for-photos-for-some-preview-users” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Slashdot (via data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/preview-users-have-noticed-onedrives-ai-driven-face-recognition-setting-is-opt-out-and-can-only-be-turned-off-three-times-a-year/” data-url=”https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/preview-users-have-noticed-onedrives-ai-driven-face-recognition-setting-is-opt-out-and-can-only-be-turned-off-three-times-a-year/” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>PCGamer), the option to enable or disable the AI face scanning feature comes with a caveat that says “ data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/group-photos-by-people-21065f48-c746-48ad-a98a-cbe4631631bc” data-url=”https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/group-photos-by-people-21065f48-c746-48ad-a98a-cbe4631631bc” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>You can only turn off this setting 3 times a year.” It’s unclear why toggling the setting would be…
