Does Photoshop secretly scan your images?

Then Photoshop need to seriously improve their code so that this feature makes any sense. I cannot open the below image in Photoshop because it contains bills, even though you can see at most like 25% of each bill.

I can tell you from experience that this doesn't always work properly.

Using this type of structure:

//nothing here except targeting photoshop & localize
try {
    // --> all code relating to loading and manipulating an image
} catch(e){
    // handle e
}
//nothing here

 I've still had money images that made photoshop crash. Things like packshots of a wallet with some currency showing.

To the OP: I don't work with currency a lot, but for me, images not showing the entire unit of currency (ie not the entire bill or coin) are usually fine. The picture below doesn't show an entire dollar bill and does open in photoshop.

I bought a stock image of money in a bucket and psd wouldn't open it due to counterfeit rules? Can this be turned off? As long as the image is turned, curved, folded, otherwise obstructed, why can't we use it? 

I worked around it but it was annoying.

I ran into a similar issue. A few engineers sent me an image of an electrical unit they made and held up half of a dollar bill for scale. I couldn't open the image. Some printers, I've heard also has the ability to detect currency and won't print.

Keep us posted on this, as seems unfair to purchase an image with a pink background, and to not be able to edit. Atleast if was posted as a .png with transparent the image might have some usefullness.

Jane is correct, but it does seem odd that you download this from Adobe Stock, but can't use it. You would think that they would have screened for that when accepting the image. There are some work arounds, but you will have to Google them.