Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.

@baldur I'll just mention: Their competitor—Affinity, just released version 2 of their programs :)

@YellowDot @baldur

Affinity isn't *within a million miles* of being a LightRoom "competitor" - they're completely different solutions.

(I've used Affinity Photo since the day it was released, and Lightroom since v.3)

@keithreeder This is why Adobe took the market. Always when you try to fight the market leader you need to choose a little worst competitor