A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal

Post by inportb » Sun, Aug 21, 2022, 2:49 PM UTC

ISL wrote: post #153

ugjka wrote: post #71

> Not only did he lose emails, contact information for friends and former colleagues, and documentation of his son’s first years of life, his Google Fi account shut down, meaning he had to get a new phone number with another carrier. Without access to his old phone number and email address, he couldn’t get the security codes he needed to sign in to other internet accounts, locking him out of much of his digital life.…

One solution to many of these concerns is a periodic backup (via Takeout) of your Google account.

Post by yyyk » Sun, Aug 21, 2022, 2:52 PM UTC

mulmen wrote: post #228

bart_spoon wrote: post #210

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You say that as if there is no other reason to ban alcohol than religious belief, and not like alcohol being one of the most negative societal influences in the areas of human health, crime, public safety, and poverty. Just because humans are so cripplingly addicted to alcohol that banning was untenable doesn’t mean it was a bad idea.

Prohibition didn’t work. Everyone who wanted to kept drinking. Religious guilt is an ineffective motivator of change. Source: human history. It’s time to move on.

Post by scarface74 » Sun, Aug 21, 2022, 2:56 PM UTC

mysterydip wrote: post #278

scarface74 wrote: post #240

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My pictures and videos are synced to iCloud, Google Photos, and MS OneDrive. My photos are synced to Amazon Drive too.

Do you use the same email or 2FA for all of those? If so, you still have a potential single point of failure if that provider decides to ban your account.

Post by kornhole » Sun, Aug 21, 2022, 2:58 PM UTC

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #163

HL33tibCe7 wrote: post #31

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And you can’t even escape these companies by moving to another country. They have their tendrils everywhere, except in places that consciously prevent them - which is usually done by even worse tyrannies like China/Russia. Always makes me laugh when I see employees of Google, Amazon etc. claiming to be “anti-fascist” and “standing in solidarity with the common man” etc etc…

What if I use Huawei phone, which is banned from using Google services? Obviously, China will have all my info, but they can't (yet) ban me from boarding US trains for low social rating, so what do I care?

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Aug 21, 2022, 2:58 PM UTC

peoplefromibiza wrote: post #55

free652 wrote: post #43

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Those countries would love to blackmail you. Just encrypt your data rclone would do that.

> Those countries would love to blackmail you based on what? At least is an entire Country that will blackmail me, must think I am really important, not some rando that hacked iCloud to find celebrities boobs and post them online... > Just encrypt your data rclone would do that. yeah, but rclone is an offline backup, basically. cloud storage is for when you need immediate access and search capabilities.