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“we reasonably believe that your conduct causes harm or liability to a user, third party, or Google — for example, by hacking, phishing, harassing, spamming, misleading others, or scraping content that doesn’t belong to you”
How is this done? Google claims files are encrypted at rest and encrypted during transfer. Metadata inspection? Checksum during upload?
"Google Fi did me wrong, so I reversed the charges on CC - now my entire Google account is locked / all photos / all files in drive"
This seems... like it's going to get regulated soon. Just going to take blocking the wrong account some day and boom, here we go, legislation.
I have, uh, mp3 backups of all the music I have owned from my, um, ludicrously massive CD collection. Is it worth the risk that google might one day decide I am a pirate and block my account?
The /r/datahoarder subreddit and it's wiki is a decent starting place for figuring out backup options.
Ironically, craping the web can result in termination of your account: “we reasonably believe that your conduct causes harm or liability to a user, third party, or Google — for example, by hacking, phishing, harassing, spamming, misleading others, or scraping content that doesn’t belong to you”
Oh the irony, Google. It doesn't belong to you either.
Reminder to periodically do a Google Takeout to protect your data from Google.
Aside from legitimate DMCAs what I'm worried about is losing backupped files of any sort because some rogue individual files a complaint on stuff they don't own or because of an ML error and an inexistent customer service by Google. Also I don't really like the service to sneak onto any files I upload. What alternatives do we have for cloud file backup? I already do full backups, need something to sync files between…
I have, uh, mp3 backups of all the music I have owned from my, um, ludicrously massive CD collection. Is it worth the risk that google might one day decide I am a pirate and block my account?