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Microsoft OneDrive Limits How Often You Can Adjust Facial-Recognition Settings

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The tech is intended to help you group photos by people, but it includes a puzzling restriction: Microsoft will only let you toggle the feature on and off three times per year.

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Microsoft is testing a controversial new policy on OneDrive: users will only be able to disable automatic scanning of their photos by artificial intelligence three times a year. Officially, the objective is to ensure the stability of the service and compliance with the laws on illegal content. But this restriction questions the real place of consent and the compatibility of this practice with the European GDPR, which guarantees the right of with…

Microsoft is currently experimenting with a new AI-powered facial recognition feature in OneDrive – albeit under strange conditions. The feature is currently being rolled out to selected users in a preview phase, without them having actively opted in. Disabling this feature is only intended...Read the article: Microsoft OneDrive: AI facial recognition with deactivation restrictions tested You can support us with every purchase you make through A…

While Microsoft is working on a brand new interface for its OneDrive service, the company is testing a new facial recognition algorithm in parallel to facilitate the sorting of photos.

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pcgamer broke the news in on Sunday, October 12, 2025.
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