<story><title>Google Drive may restrict files identified as violating ToS</title><url>https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/12/abuse-notification-emails-google-drive.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ncann</author><text>I believe this may be due to the popular spamming method lately which is tagging people into a Google Docs and share it so everyone receives a notification (the spam message). It works better than regular email spam since apparently Gmail doesn&amp;#x27;t treat Google Docs notification email as spam (at least not as often).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>The files are not removed or blocked, they just can&amp;#x27;t be shared publicly:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;  When it’s restricted, you may see a flag next to the filename, you won’t be able to share it, and your file will no longer be publicly accessible&lt;p&gt;So it&amp;#x27;s probably a combination of things, including piracy. They&amp;#x27;re not forbidding people from storing or retrieving the files, just not allowing anyone to publicly host whatever they want on Google&amp;#x27;s servers. Seems reasonable.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Drive may restrict files identified as violating ToS</title><url>https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/12/abuse-notification-emails-google-drive.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ncann</author><text>I believe this may be due to the popular spamming method lately which is tagging people into a Google Docs and share it so everyone receives a notification (the spam message). It works better than regular email spam since apparently Gmail doesn&amp;#x27;t treat Google Docs notification email as spam (at least not as often).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duskwuff</author><text>Similarly: Google Forms being used for phishing, Google Calendar invite spam... I&amp;#x27;ve even heard of Google Photos being used for spam (by &amp;quot;sharing&amp;quot; photos, or by posting photos with text as the target of a spam campaign).&lt;p&gt;Spammers ruin everything.</text></comment>