Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say

https://lemmus.org/post/21044311

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

They’re suggesting it was automated hash based recognition.

I don’t have a problem with CSAM hash matching.

my issue is that we have a framework for corporations to scan all your data and inform the state. used to stop CSAM, but it’s a matter of state policy wether said structure will be used to fight discent.
I agree. We’ve seen this happening in the USA “yes technically they can do that but they would never”. Now we know better.
Eventually “sprinkle some crack on him” will turn into “put some CSAM in his google drive”

“The first image in the ‘Nudity’ collection 
 depicted who I believe to be David Edward-Ooi Poon without a shirt, taking a selfie of himself while sticking out his tongue over an unconscious adult female,” the search-warrant application states. The document goes on to describe the woman in the photo as naked below the waist and wearing a dark-coloured eye mask over her eyes.

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.”

Doesn’t sound like hashes to me.

That is the result of the search warrant.
Sure, until it starts flagging normal pictures with us janky AI and you get your door kicked in based on a warrant signed by Google.

This literally already happened here in Sweden. A guy got assaulted by masked police in the middle of the night because an American company had gone through photos in his Yahoo mail and flagged his 30 year old boyfriend as possible CSAM.

Long article in Swedish.

People like to think that Sweden is progressive etc. and I’d rebut it with this. If it can happen here, it could happen anywhere.

Babak Karimi: "Jag misshandlades av maskerad polis i mitt eget sovrum"

Babak Karimi berĂ€ttar att hans dag börjar med att polisen stĂ„r i hans sovrum. Den fortsĂ€tter i en cell dĂ€r han nekas vĂ„rd. NĂ€r han fĂ„r reda pĂ„ vad han Ă€r anklagad för blir han chockad. – Varken jag, min mamma eller pojkvĂ€n vill bo i Sverige lĂ€ngre, nĂ€r vi sett den hĂ€r rasistiska och homofobiska behandlingen av oss, sĂ€ger Babak Karimi.

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