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.

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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