FixableYour devices, car & home
Face-scanning your photos
Your phone and cloud quietly building a face index of your life.
Understand it
Apple, Google and social apps scan your photo library to recognise faces and group people - a biometric index of who you know and where you were, built automatically. It is convenient, but it is a sensitive record, and on social platforms it can power tagging suggestions you didn’t ask for.
How to spot it
The “People” album on your phone is that index made visible.
Close the gap
- Turn off face recognition / “People” grouping if you don’t want it.
- Turn off tag and face suggestions on social platforms.
- Keep sensitive photos out of auto-syncing cloud libraries.
- Review who can see photos you are tagged in.
What to do about it
This is part of your plan at the High-risk level - Harden your devices. Work through it there and you’ll close this off along with everything else it covers.