BeepGoogle tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say
🍉 Albert 🍉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”