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

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

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Post by deepdriver »

mike_hock wrote: post #20
soraminazuki wrote: post #15

> A Google spokeswoman said the company stands by its decisions, even though law enforcement cleared the two men. Wow. Just wow. This is worse than the usual Google's automated screw-ups. In this case, Google was notified of the issue by the NYT. Yet they actively chose to continue to screw over their victims just because they can. > In a statement, Google said, “Child sexual abuse material is abhorrent and we’re com…

Welcome to fascism. A private company is the de-facto judge, jury and executioner because it owns half the infrastructure you live your life on.

"The word fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signals 'something not desirable.'" --George Orwell

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

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Post by 7steps2much »

scarface74 wrote: post #30
killingtime74 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Snap chat?

A specific medical oriented app. I’ve had a few virtual appointments where they ask me do I have an iPhone for FaceTime. I do. But what do they do for Android users? Which one of the ten soon to be discontinued Google video conferencing apps would the doctor use?

I have had a few appointments where they didn't ask me about what device I wanted to use at all, just send me a webex link and had me join in a browser.

Works for (almost) all devices.

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

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Post by petee »

hosteur wrote: post #22
mikece wrote: post #4

I worked in a 1 Hour Photo when I was in college. The standing rule we had is that any photos of naked adults were not printed (the customer was given their negatives though). In the case of naked children if it was the typical "kid taking their first bath" it was fine but if there was any doubt we had a manager review it. I think we had to call the cops a couple times (more for passing the buck than making an offici…

Why would you not print naked adults?

One example would be protecting employees from someone just bringing in photos of themselves with the sole intent of exposing themselves to the employee, as they have a captive audience.

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

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Post by fit2rule »

free652 wrote: post #43
peoplefromibiza wrote: post #16

controversial opinion: as much as everybody knows that China isn't exactly championing the western way of life and western democratic standards, I keep my private files in a Chinese cloud (backups are kept private in a NAS in my house). Why? Because they are not in contact with our authorities and, frankly, the chances my private files will be of any interest for Chinese authorities are close to zero. Not that I have…

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

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

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Post by peoplefromibiza »

free652 wrote: post #43
peoplefromibiza wrote: post #16

controversial opinion: as much as everybody knows that China isn't exactly championing the western way of life and western democratic standards, I keep my private files in a Chinese cloud (backups are kept private in a NAS in my house). Why? Because they are not in contact with our authorities and, frankly, the chances my private files will be of any interest for Chinese authorities are close to zero. Not that I have…

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.

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Post by mirekrusin »

isodev wrote: post #45
mike_hock wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Welcome to fascism. A private company is the de-facto judge, jury and executioner because it owns half the infrastructure you live your life on.

With the flick of a switch, they can deploy this technology to a global scale and way beyond protecting children. Imagine the feature propagating to their Chrome browser or their smart speakers "listening in" on what's happening in your home to "prevent" crimes by sending the cops whenever you raise your voice or say "the wrong things." This kind of power should not be in the hands of a single company. Edit: I recent…

Who needs cops if you have an army of robots.

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

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Post by hosteur »

blueflow wrote: post #39
HL33tibCe7 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

You still have the choice to not use any of their services. You can get pretty far in life despite not using the internet at all.

Well not in all countries. In my country you are required to receive electronic messages from the government as well as to have a government issued ID and authentication system that forces you to have a fairly recent smartphone. For now, it is theoretically possible to use the authentication system without a smartphone but you will have to jump through an awful amount of (artificially imposed) hoops.

Not having an internet connection is NOT an option. There is a legal process to get a special permit to avoid having to use these state mandated electronic systems but it is almost only theoretically in that you will need to have a doctor's note saying that you are unable to use such systems. E.g., by suffering by severe dementia or similar.

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Post by detaro »

cpach wrote: post #13
ReadTheLicense wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure where you'd upload the photos to Google domains? Assuming, of course, that you don't use your personal account for your domains - that'd be crazy!

If it’s personal domains, then it would make sense to use a personal account.

Not to mention Google will link accounts and ban across them.

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

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Post by tjpnz »

HL33tibCe7 wrote: post #31
mike_hock wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Welcome to fascism. A private company is the de-facto judge, jury and executioner because it owns half the infrastructure you live your life on.

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…

>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…

Having had the pleasure of sharing the elevator with said individuals in shared office buildings the "common man" part almost made me lose my coffee.

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

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Post by mulmen »

scarface74 wrote: post #12

I have a larger issue that no one addressed. There has to be some type of special software for the medical profession that allows you to take a picture on your phone that is not stored on your phone and that you send to the doctor.

You are asking an unfortunately reasonable question. The fucked up thing is that your normal camera app should suffice for this.
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