Google turned in parents to police after flagging photos of their child, requested by their doctor during Zoom health care

Google turned in parents to police after flagging photos of their child, requested by their doctor during Zoom health care

Google scanned pictures taken to send to a doctor

Source: Google AI flagged parents’ accounts for potential abuse over nude photos of their sick kids – The Verge

The photos were sent to their doctor, at the doctor’s request, to diagnose an infection during the time that public health shut down in person health care. Google’s AI flagged the photos as child pornography. Google turned the Dad into the police, shut down all access to his email, his backups, his cloud photos – even his cellphone service which was through Google Fi. Google turned over to the police everything: his documents, photos, emails, location history and all online searches he had ever done.

GOOGLE NEVER RESTORED HIS ACCOUNT AND DELETED ALL OF HIS INFORMATION even though the police dropped the investigation after learning what it was about.

Original: A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal. – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Google email and cloud services are unreliable and not private.  I cannot recommend their use for any serious applications.

 

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