Does The Updated Adobe Photoshop Terms Of Use Gives Them The Right To Access All Your Work?
From the “this seems a bit suspect” comes this discovery by Sam Santala about the terms of use for Adobe Photoshop:
Of course this set off a bit of a tizzy on the Internet. And it sounds pretty bad on the surface. But there’s another view to this.
The way this is written, it sounds like it only refers to content that you upload to Adobe. Meaning that stuff that is local is stuff that they don’t have access to. That’s fine. Sort of. There’s also references to looking for things like CSAM and adult material. Now I am a computer nerd and not a lawyer, but that sounds like a cover your a$$ sort of thing to me. There’s also verbiage about using machine learning to improve their products. That’s something that I can see people having issues with as there are people out there who don’t want AI models trained using their stuff.
Adobe could really do itself a favour by clarifying this. Because until they do, people are going to have the impression that Adobe products are basically spyware when in reality they’re likely not. Thus I’ve pinged Adobe over this and if I actually get a response, I’ll post it here.
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I wrote about both of Adobe’s responses in the last 24 hours:
https://itnerd.blog/2024/06/06/so-adobe-responds-to-their-terms-of-use-change-and-it-isnt-going-over-well/
https://itnerd.blog/2024/06/07/adobe-tries-again-to-clarify-their-terms-of-use-does-this-make-you-feel-better-about-adobe/
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