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Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by JadeNB »

nickthegreek wrote: post #46
JadeNB wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Welp - affordability. It's expensive and arguably less reliable to get an external hard drive. I think multiply redundant back-ups get expensive, but one external hard drive with scads of space is cheap (at least from the perspective of someone who grew up when you measured space in MB). It won't provide you the security against data failure, but it will provide some recourse for when the cloud provider yanks your…

Won’t protect you from fire or theft either.

Well, it will if it's in a different location. But that's just what I mean—you don't need one solution that protects against everything; different solutions can protect against different threats, and all you really need is one to make it through.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by everybodyknows »

aboringusername wrote: post #6

Aside from all the moral and ethical questions this raises from the usage of faceless AI, really this happens time and again, I suspect so Google can employ less human reviewers and so they can claim "not our fault". I think I've commented on a couple of these posts by now every time with the same advice. But anyhow, people should be well aware cloud providers do use AI systems and they will make mistakes, so you sho…

From the post:

>Google Drive which I used to back up all of my data

“back up” rather than “only copy”.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by shoto_io »

ecshafer wrote: post #2

I will upvote and comment to hopefully gain visibility at the minimum. Google really has an unfortunate customer support set up, in that there isn't one. Your best bet when Google does something bad to their customers like this (And regardless if its a bad AI or bad bot, its still Google doing it), is to post it on twitter or hackernews and hope it gets the visibility for a Google employee to fix it, or contact someo…

I recently decided against G Drive and for office.com for our tiny startup. One reason being the unreliable customer support often mentioned here on HN.

I hope MS customer support is better…

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by spicybright »

bserge wrote: post #62
scohesc wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's honestly really scary and I never thought of that.

Never heard of Amazon and Apple removing files from users' accounts? It was kinda big news. For a day.

It's not that, it's the risk of permanently losing culturally significant media because of it.

Not everyone is a techie that can switch from google's friendly UI, and transfer everything to another safer service that operates differently.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by jjulius »

bserge wrote: post #55
N00bN00b wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a counter movement, for example, these guys place a significant role (and as far as I know primarily with a practical focus): https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/

They are the worst pirates I've ever heard of.

What a terribly inaccurate, sweeping generalization.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by gibsonf1 »

ColinWright wrote: post #51
gibsonf1 wrote: post #4

I have to say, the fact that google disables the back button once you hit the link above is truly infuriating.

The "Back" button works for me after I've cluck the link ... I wonder what you're seeing that I'm not.

Ahh, I'm on firefox - wonder why its only there?

Oh wait, I think that's even worse. This is the case for all google sites, if you use firefox, back button is disabled. Maybe this is to worsen the user experience for Firefox and encourage use of Chrome?

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by squarefoot »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #53
dsign wrote: post #36

This is very disturbing; hundreds of thousands of individuals and companies host their important documents in Google Drive--and pay to do it. Imagine that tomorrow you are locked out of those by a faulty AI, and the company that you have spent years building goes into bankruptcy and the livelihood of your employees goes away, just like that. Google has no business snooping in their customer's data for any reason, muc…

Google Drive is free. The individual in-question was not paying for the service. If you do pay for Google’s services via G Suite then you do get instant human support.

Being free is not an excuse. If Google can't give a reliable free service, then they should stop offering free services. Thee way they're doing it is way unprofessional.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by bserge »

bserge wrote: post #55
N00bN00b wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a counter movement, for example, these guys place a significant role (and as far as I know primarily with a practical focus): https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/

They are the worst pirates I've ever heard of.

Ah, but you have heard of them!

(gotta do everything myself, but I can go to sleep now :D)

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by 1023bytes »

rexreed wrote: post #71

I have more concerns about Google Docs than Google Drive. While files can be moved around and used pretty much the same offline as online, the same cannot be said about the use of Google Docs for collaborative document editing. If you're trying to de-Google your life, what is a sane replacement for Google Docs in a collaborative team environment where you can have some confidence that you won't lose all your assets?

If you want to own your data you can use Nextcloud with Collabora
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