lol where was google tipping off authorities when epstein was mentioning trafficking child slaves via gmail??? disgusting company
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Reminds me of case when Google effectively swatted dude who sent medical images of his infant son intimate areas to a doctor (due to COVID lockdown direct visit wasnt possible)
Nice to be accused of pedophilia based on your perfectly legit medical documentation.
Fuck you Google.
severe mix feelings.
glad they caught him, but corporations casually snooping through your data and report whatever they want is definitely not an good thing
In EU it's straight out forbidden
looking at account images or pedophilia?
Both
Reasonable pair of laws, just as I'd expect from them
Was a gay guy here in Sweden who got assaulted and kidnapped by masked police because some American company had found CSAM on his account while crawling through Yahoo email.
Only it wasn’t CSAM, the photos depicted the man’s 30 year old twinky boyfriend.
No restitution. No police were punished for assaulting a suspect proved innocent. The man and his boyfriend both were humiliated.
I’ve no mixed feelings about it. Spying through private data is entirely unforgivable. There are plenty of pedos out there who get caught and nothing happens anyway. They don’t need to violate innocent people’s privacy to do their job.
Like if the ends justify the means you can end all suffering in the world by just nuking everything. All problems solved.
Edit: pesos → pedos
Oh gods now you have me worried. 20 years ago I was a hundred pounds lighter and just a bag of skin holding a skeleton. There are some photos of me on my Google account that skinny. (also in your medical textbooks but anyways) and I also have photos of me now. We look like completely different people.
never too late to use another service to back up your photos! ente is a good alternative, i personally use proton drive (it’s kind of a crappy interface and not nearly as good as google, but it works). if you’re at all curious about self hosting, immich is basically a 1:1 google photos replacement.
google is our offsite backup. i've got a decent onsite already. i haven't the energy to de-google right now but like, in six months maybe. my todo list is, uh,
If you care about encryption I’d recommend Ente. They have guides for migrating from Google Photos.
I was initially just doing local backups but I decided I wanted something offsite and Ente has been great.
There’s also Immich which is very similar to Google Photos in terms of features, and NextCloud which is a whole cloud suite. These aren’t encrypted by default though so if you use a cloud provider they could realistically also scan through your photos.
i feel you, i still have all my old photos from 2020 and before on google photos. the google takeout function didn’t even work for me, nearly half my photos were missing, so i have to manually download them i suppose. i get anxious still having so much stuff on there, but it’s so hard to migrate off especially after using it for a decade!
i've still got to ensure all my photos are off my last phone and on both backups (and that's important because my dad died when i had that phone) and then make sure all the current phones and photos are backed up, and then make sure the current compy's documents are backed up and i can try installing mint!
Anyone with the public trust of dealing with patients needs to be scrutinized.
I don't disagree with that. but the feels like propaganda to destroy privacy and encourage a total surveillance state.
Microsoft has been doing this for years. It was with Onedrive at first but now that they've enabled "analytics" in every product that might connect to the internet they can have it all searched.
Supposedly it is first filtered by algorithms but that shit is still being uploaded somewhere other than your hard drive.
I believe it was in preview build versions of Win 7 or 10 where researchers found it was sending the generated thumbnails of images on your PC to Redmond (MS HQ). Can't remember if they said it was for CSAM detection or just a debugging feature in the preview builds.
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Unfortunately, the negative effects from companies like Google turning in completely ethical people for doing things that should be completely legal and uncontroversial will do drastically more damage than the positive effects from said companies turning in the poorest of the pedophiles.
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This reminds me that there are 1000s of SysAdmins that stumbled onto the Trumpstien emails. They were not hidding anything at all, that shit was setting flags off everywhere. The question is what happened next? Did the CIA show up at their door telling them they will put you in the ground if they have to and remind them that their Google employee NDA shuts thems up. Maybe the honeypot was so in-gained in Google that the emails were auto flagged as "part of an ongoing investigation" and IT just ignored them.
In the US companies(where the company is located last I knew) are legally mandated to report specific things such as CSAM and other things if they come across it.
What the issue should be isn't the fact that they are reporting it, the issue should be they have the capability to see it in the first place to be able to report it.
This isn't me defending CSAM or anything like that but, in a decent storage system, google shouldn't be able to even see what you have, let alone what the images actually are.
Today it's for CSAM. Tomorrow it could be for saying anything negative about dear leader. Our Constitution clearly won't protect us.
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They not only look at your files but will decrypt any encrypted zip files to see what you have.
That seems less like them decrypting encrypted archives and more like the zip format not encrypting filenames so they're easily read from the zip's metadata.
Which is still a privacy violation, to be clear, but not nearly on the same scale as somehow obtaining and using your passwords to decrypt data you yourself encrypted.
That was what someone claimed but it isn't true. Filenames are not accessible in an encrypted zip.
~~it depends on the type of zip encryption, the default doesn't encrypt metadata~~
edit: upon looking into it further, the other commenter is right, the zip format itself doesn't actually support encrypting metadata at all, you would need to use a different format such as 7z to obtain it.
They are visible, you can test this yourself. Open a password-protected zip with 7zip and it'll show the file list even without entering the password. The "encrypt file names" checkbox doesn't even appear when creating an archive if the zip format is selected, so I'm not sure the format supports it.
The detective alleges that that photograph and others she examined appeared to be stored in a folder on the iPhone titled "Girls I Drugged And Raped."
Also the guy's last name is Poon.
I thought you both were trying to be funny. How is that even real.
The other guys name is Butt. This article is trippy.
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