2026-10-17 14:25 UTC
Does Immich sell/use/keep your ML-based FR? Or is this totally local a never leaves your instance?
That was always the question that bordered me… I run Leeche its a very simple and minimal photo album service and I really like it ! But my family want something that’s more like immich but I’m very cautious about what i’m selfhosting and something that collects data points on my behalf is a no-go !
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@IanTwenty@piefed.social 2026-10-17 15:58
I do not run Immich but their privacy policy states: Locally Stored Data: Immich stores all your photos, albums, settings, and other metadata locally on your device. We do not have access to this data, nor do we transmit or store it on any of our servers. https://immich.app/privacy-policy Additionally in their docs I can find no mention of connecting to outside services. I do see references to downloading hugging face models. https://docs.immich.app/features/facial-recognition#how-face-detection-works