| Don't you think that the actions of governments have a lot more to do with what happened here than Google's own policies? 1) Google is forced to do CSAM scanning and report any offending material to authorities by EU 2) they are forced to close accounts where they find this account 3) they are forced to delete any accounts so closed by GPDR regulations This isn't Google, Facebook or LinkedIn doing this, the only thing Google has to do with this is that they're big enough to be one of the first targets of police forces of multiple nations to implement this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EARN_IT_Act https://european-pirateparty.eu/chatcontrol-commission-prese... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula... How the police actually deals with these companies: https://www.zdnet.com/article/signal-unveils-how-far-us-law-... "Though the judge approved four consecutive non-disclosure orders, the court never acknowledged receipt of our motion to partially unseal, nor scheduled a hearing, and would not return counsel's phone calls seeking to schedule a hearing," Signal wrote. Oh ... and of course, now many US states have decided that for the police's sacred duty to prevent abortions, the police do NOT have to respect their jurisdiction (they get to attack people for crimes, proven ... or not, committed elsewhere when related to abuse, like CSAM)... Sorry, but the problem here is not tech companies, except in the sense that you may be more or less exposed to this problem depending on how much private info you store with them. |