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> It's fairly normal for parents to take pictures of their children naked in the bathtub/at the beach/ camping/etc. And what I understand is that each of these
by seszett 4y ago
> It's fairly normal for parents to take pictures of their children naked in the bathtub/at the beach/ camping/etc.
And what I understand is that each of these private photos of their children that parents take on an Android phone with Google cloud enabled gets specifically flagged to be shown to a stranger working for Google.
That sounds pretty insane to me.
- bmacho 4y agoI don't think it is even legal for google to watch my photos, even if i accepted everything they said, and permitted them to do so.
- 9Ljdg6p8ZSzejt 4y agoIt is. And you did.
- mindslight 4y agoThis quite the insane realization, and it needs to be shouted from the rooftops every time the encryption "debate" comes up. Authoritarians browbeat us by overstating the diffuse possibility of harm, while whitewashing the effects of their own actions. Meanwhile their actions create centralized, institutionalized, inescapable harm - specifically here, creating a ripe target for pedophiles to remotely creep on everyday families just trying to go about their lives.
- zuminator 4y agoWhat's more a "professional" CP distributor would at the least encrypt or compress their photos, and probably not even use Gmail, maybe use a hijacked cracked account.* So that would lower the "true" positive rate even further. *In fact that seems like it could be an effective form of extortion or swatting. Someone with access to your credentials could (threaten to) send CP over your account and ruin your life. Or destroy a small business.