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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 judge2020 »

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…

Workspace customers generally have a grace period to remove content before they're suspended, like the user was in this case.

https://workspace.google.com/terms/premier_terms.html

> If Google becomes aware that Customer's or any End User's use of the Services violates the AUP, Google will notify Customer and request that Customer correct the violation. If Customer fails to correct the violation within 24 hours of Google's request, then Google may Suspend all or part of Customer's use of the Services until the violation is corrected. Suspension of the Services may include removal or unsharing of content that violates the AUP.

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

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Post by lucasverra »

jhart99 wrote: post #109
lucasverra wrote: post #34

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I pay for Google one since approx 24 months and have had surprisingly decent phone support with less than 3 clicks. PS: I tend to avoid google services, but google workplace is too damn superior

This has also been my experience. Google One will get you to the right person to get things fixed. I had a billing issue that they were able to resolve in under 24 hours. But I could see the problem if your account gets banned that has the Google One on it... Would be hard to submit a request when you can't log in.

Im that case just put one service on another account for a couple of bucks.

“Google is robbing me of my money by banning my access to the account im paying for” should give quick responses

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Post by foxpurple »

judge2020 wrote: post #385
Gigachad wrote: post #370

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That's easy to fix. You have a government body that takes complaints and if a company receives too many complaints over their customer service, they must pay a penalty.

And if people file these complains for doing stuff like actually hosting terrorism? For this to work you'd also need a review board to determine if TOS clauses are "fair" and not overbearing.

If a literal terrorist files a complaint then the police department can pick them up. The complaints department only needs to handle local citizen complaints.

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

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Post by foxpurple »

eitland wrote: post #374
Gigachad wrote: post #335

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You can easily get your data out frequently from here https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout Encrypted data is too much of a pain because it breaks cross platform integrations. I mostly upload files via my ipad and phone which are unable to encrypt the data. It also prevents you from previewing things without downloading the full file first.

It is a pain to use IMO. You get a mail sometime in the future and after receiving it you have to turn around and download multiple chunks, log in for each of them and do it quickly before they disappear.

Probably more of a pain if you have a large amount of data and a slow internet connection. For me it all fits in the 50GB file and downloads in a few minutes. I guess pulling out 1TB of data on a slow connection would be difficult but I can’t see how google could make it better since downloading and extracting a 1TB zip on its own would be almost impossible.

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Post by AussieWog93 »

mastazi wrote: post #294
AussieWog93 wrote: post #246

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Or just use Zoho. It's free to link your own domain ($1/mo if you want IMAP access) and they have actual support. I have contacted them in the past about a bug with their DKIM implementation (or really, the UI) and they sorted it out manually on the spot.

This was in case OP didn't want to give up Gmail straight away. Of course you can just migrate to another provider, or, as in my case, spin up your own mailinabox[1] instance. That way the only provider you have to deal with is the cloud provider for your VPS, and in the remote case my account was terminated, it would be very easy to switch to a different provider (because Mailinabox includes functionality to do auto…

I've thought about doing this myself, but apparently it's a lot of work to get right. I read from others who tried it that a lot of their mail would be caught by spam filters and they didn't necessarily know why.

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Post by ttty2 »

silexia wrote: post #348
Gigachad wrote: post #329

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As if the Google AI is smart enough to understand context anyway. If you are going to use google services, set a calendar reminder to download the takeout dump very frequently. It's pretty easy to do and saves you in these cases.

Google was once my favorite company when it was still run by its founders and genuinely followed the "don't be evil" policy. Now everything it does has turned into dark patterns. Google's #1 revenue generator Ads (formerly AdWords) now uses dark patterns to trick advertisers into spending more. For example, most of the recommendations make a user's campaign spend more money while not getting results. Many unwary user…

The default for country targeting it's not people living in that country, but people interested in that country.

Because of this you can easily get clicks from a person in India that is interested in USA (if you're target is USA).

I have a guide on how to create new ads to avoid all these traps.

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Post by prox »

carabiner wrote: post #101
prox wrote: post #29

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Citation needed?

https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-na... There have been a lot of WW2 fanboys who have been writing fawning articles about nazis who won a medal or two and were secretly, actually anti-Hitler the whole time. The reality, as far as documented, is that most of these were run of the mill soldiers without any known tendencies to be treasonous in wartime. She's been finding most of the heroics to be…

Great article and insightful on how WP works.

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Post by encryptluks2 »

no_butterscotch wrote: post #325
encryptluks2 wrote: post #317

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You can still only get one or two, if you're lucky, high speed Internet service providers.

Right, in my apartment building I don't have a choice. It's all through Comcast.

I feel bad for you. Comcast recently accidentally disconnected my service twice now 2 weeks before my move because their internal systems are screwed up and then told me they couldn't fix their own issues because of their system, thus leaving me without Internet for multiple days.
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