Absolutely no AI here!
What is known as “AI” at the moment is really just a large scale data collection operation. Everything you do with it becomes an addition to its dataset, a tracking beacon, or both. Don’t know about you, but I detest the implications of it, so…
No AI will ever be used with your photos or on this website. Everything is created and edited by yours truly (with the only exception being a “portrait” of Zuckerberg above, which I’ve generated online just to make a point).
Speaking of Zuck… There’s no Zuck.
I’ve deleted my Facebook & Instagram profiles and their corresponding business pages. No Facebook tracking pixels on this website, either. Social sharing buttons, when available, don’t use any scripting and won’t spy on you.
No Goog either!
All Google trackers and beacons on this website were removed, with the exception of embedded Google Maps snippet that shows my “home area” at the bottom of Pricing page. The only other tracker here is my own, self-hosted, statistics collection system.
You want privacy? You can count on me!
From air-gapped workstation computers and secure communicators to the website that doesn’t track you, we already have the basics covered. It’s up to you to decide what level of privacy you want with your photos. Here are some examples:
- Your photos will be published online under “Client Galleries”, and your personal gallery will be viewable to the public. This is a default tier of privacy, and for a good reason. Search engines (at least the ones that operate within the bounds of US law) will index your gallery, take note of the copyright notices and metadata, and treat them in accordance with DMCA… Well, in a perfect world.
- Your photos will be published under “Client Galleries”, but your gallery will be password protected. This way, only people who know the password will be able to see the photos. For the rest of the world, the only visible parts would be the gallery’s title (which may or may not contain your name, it’s completely up to you) and a title (“teaser”) photo. This is a good choice for portraits and family photo sessions, as the number of people asking you for a password will be rather limited. However, for weddings and other events where you have a lot of people who would want to visit your gallery, I highly recommend an “open to the public” option described above. Otherwise all of your guests, friends and relatives will be asking you for a password…
- Same as above, but the gallery is not listed at all. One has to know where to click to enter the password, and then taken directly to the gallery. Again, this works well for portraiture but not suited for most social events.
- Complete privacy is always possible. If you so desire, I could make sure that your photos never touch a computer that is connected to the Internet – until they are delivered, offline of course. Then it will be up to you whether or not to share them online.
- I can neither confirm nor deny that NDA work is also an option.
