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Chrome will soon automatically OCR PDFs (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 1 year ago by iuseit@iusearchlinux.fyi to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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You think there will be some privacy implications for this?

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[–] itchy_lizard@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, if I run my own business and have my own email servers behind a VPN, no way in hell PDFs on that server are being indexed.

But now, if an employee opens a PDF in an email attachment and the file is sent out to Google's severs for OCR processing?? That's a huge breach of security.

We should be able to expect that what we open in our web browsers stays local.