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
#2"Google’s review team [then] flagged a video he made and the San Francisco Police Department had already started to investigate him."
That sounds like a permanent stain on his records.
Re: A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
#3"Google’s review team [then] flagged a video he made and the San Francisco Police Department had already started to investigate him." That sounds like a permanent stain on his records.
Also a permanent stain on Google's reputation.
Re: A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
#4I 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 official decision like that ourselves) but there is/was a policy for things like that.
Re: A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
#5I’ve heard great things about Google Domains but this kind of story is exactly why I probably won’t be using that service. It’s just too risky if you lose everything at once.
Re: A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
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#8"Google’s review team [then] flagged a video he made and the San Francisco Police Department had already started to investigate him." That sounds like a permanent stain on his records.
Also a permanent stain on Google's reputation.
Google has a responsibility, to a limited degree, to turn over to law enforcement anything that they know about abuse that comes through their system. More likely, the trigger for that is set really low as a corporate CYA and to pass the buck. I can totally see Google's point of view on this: We're providing a free* service to you, we're not going to stick our neck out and risk ANY liability of being blamed of storing/harboring/distributing abusive content... we would rather err way over on the side of insane caution and let law enforcement sort it out.
Re: A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
#9I’ve heard great things about Google Domains but this kind of story is exactly why I probably won’t be using that service. It’s just too risky if you lose everything at once.
Honestly: don't upload unencrypted content to anyone, for exactly this reason.
I have cloud backups of family photos, but they're all through restic or rclone with the crypt filter applied. Privacy is about the right to put yourself in context.
Re: A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal
#10I’ve heard great things about Google Domains but this kind of story is exactly why I probably won’t be using that service. It’s just too risky if you lose everything at once.
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!