Turns out it can also happen for sending your child’s medical pictures to a doctor (and also send the cops after you).
I think it’s pretty likely that there’s more to the story than we’re hearing: there was a ton of scrutiny on this and Google didn’t change their decision, which makes me think the most likely reason is that the human review on the case really did come up with CSAM concerns beyond those pictures.
(Still, I don’t take pictures of people without clothing, including my kids: CSAM misclassification and escalation is a small risk of something very painful.)
This is the visible tip of the iceberg where the accounts do (generally) get reinstated, but we don’t know how large the invisible part of the iceberg is, and what the chances of getting your account back are if you aren’t lucky enough to be in the visible part.
Yes, but we also don’t know how many of the not reinstated cases were ones were correct.
Companies generally say things like, “out of concern for our user’s privacy we can’t release more information”, but I’d like to see something where someone making a public complaint could waive this and challenge the company to actually release their full case either publicly or to an independent ombud. Tesla does this (pretty sure, can’t find the link now) though they release things publicly even without the customer’s permission which I don’t think makes sense.
I think it’s pretty likely that there’s more to the story than we’re hearing: there was a ton of scrutiny on this and Google didn’t change their decision, which makes me think the most likely reason is that the human review on the case really did come up with CSAM concerns beyond those pictures.
(Still, I don’t take pictures of people without clothing, including my kids: CSAM misclassification and escalation is a small risk of something very painful.)
Yes, but we also don’t know how many of the not reinstated cases were ones were correct.
Companies generally say things like, “out of concern for our user’s privacy we can’t release more information”, but I’d like to see something where someone making a public complaint could waive this and challenge the company to actually release their full case either publicly or to an independent ombud. Tesla does this (pretty sure, can’t find the link now) though they release things publicly even without the customer’s permission which I don’t think makes sense.