[noam_compsci]

This case was in the news last week. Some dude named Dave took a medical photo of his young son that got flagged as CSAM. His android account was locked with no way of recourse.

At this point doing anything but search and ads with google is like going to a steak house and ordering a lasagne. It’s just not what they’re good at.

[unknownaccount]

That’s not the whole story. They didn’t reinstate his account because of another, medically unnecessary, photo of the kid in bed with his nude wife.

[emptyparadise]

Why is that a bannable offense?

[noam_compsci]

Source? I can’t find anything about this as an addendum to the story. Guardian, verge and NYT just end the story at “account still blocked”.

[ChoGGi]

It was a video and he didn't send it. He just happened to have it on the same phone.

"the subsequent review of his account turned up a video from six months earlier that Google also considered problematic, of a young child lying in bed with an unclothed woman."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/tech...

[lizardactivist]

Interesting that Google can just browse through the photos on one's phone, completely at their own initiative.

"Private and secure" - private and secure from other people. Never from Google. Never from the US government.

[MerelyMortal]

source and context? I think that happened in the U.K., and I'm not sure what their laws are, but in the U.S.A., as long as there is nothing sexual about it, such a picture is not illegal.