Google Drive may restrict files identified as violating ToS

Post by foxfluff » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 4:27 PM UTC

anshumankmr wrote: post #48

jhgb wrote: post #44

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> that is an edge case which Google would need to figure out How do you figure out legality of having a document from the document? Unless it's child porn, where it's implicit, this simply isn't computable.

Maintaining a hash of say music files that are owned by large record label companies or a conglomerate like VeVo, match every audio file uploaded with the hash and if it matches, flag it, get it reviewed and if it matches, delete it?

Post by dharmaturtle » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 4:30 PM UTC

fleddr wrote: post #43

dharmaturtle wrote: post #29

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Apple's CSAM would scan your offline photos. Google scanning photos you upload to their cloud seems fine to me. Not a slippery slope.

Very much a slippery slope. Their cloud doesn't mean its their content. If said content is public, I mostly agree, but not if its private. When I hire a storage box and put stuff in it, I don't own the storage box. Yet still it cannot be searched by anyone, not the company nor the authorities, unless there is a credible criminal suspicion.

Post by fs111 » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 4:31 PM UTC

r00fus wrote: post #50

Manheim wrote: post #46

This is deeply disturbing news. It is already a problem that people get their Google accounts closed without any explanation from Google and with no response from Google when they try to contact them. A story about Elin Killie Martinsen, a Norwegian journalist and writer who lost access to her book manuscripts this way, was recently run in the national newspaper Aftenposten ( https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/8Qj1l…

It's really bothering when the account just also happens to be your core email service so suddenly you have no way of recovering other accounts. Moving off Gmail is likely impossible for most non-technical folks.

Post by judge2020 » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 4:34 PM UTC

anshumankmr wrote: post #31

ugjka wrote: post #22

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What if you actually own the copyrighted content or have permission to have it?

Of course, that is an edge case which Google would need to figure out and perhaps, one of the many reasons they haven't done it.

Post by bencollier49 » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 4:38 PM UTC

fs111 wrote: post #55

r00fus wrote: post #50

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It's really bothering when the account just also happens to be your core email service so suddenly you have no way of recovering other accounts. Moving off Gmail is likely impossible for most non-technical folks.

There are plenty email providers out there. Free and paid. It should not be a problem for anyone to switch. Moving off of Gmail doesn't mean to self host. It is a bit of work to tell anyone about your new address, but that's it.