<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>dharmaturtle</author><text>Apple&amp;#x27;s CSAM would scan your &lt;i&gt;offline&lt;/i&gt; photos.&lt;p&gt;Google scanning photos you upload to their cloud seems fine to me. Not a slippery slope.</text></item><item><author>anshumankmr</author><text>But seriously how long is it before Google implements a hashing algorithm (not too dissimilar from Apple&amp;#x27;s) to check if a user has not uploaded content with a copyright on it and taking some form of action on the user.&lt;p&gt;This feels like a slippery slope to be on.</text></item><item><author>RegnisGnaw</author><text>Note that you can still access your files, they are not blocking that or restricting that. Its the sharing that&amp;#x27;s blocked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GeekyBear</author><text>&amp;gt;Apple&amp;#x27;s CSAM would scan your offline photos.&lt;p&gt;Apple&amp;#x27;s plan was to to scan photos that you uploaded to iCloud, only.  Even that plan was canceled.&lt;p&gt;Google, however, still does scan everything in your account and has been doing so for the past decade.&lt;p&gt;For instance, this article from 2014:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;a man [was] arrested on child pornography charges, after Google tipped off authorities about illegal images found in the Houston suspect&amp;#x27;s Gmail account&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;why-the-gmail-scan-that-led-to-a-mans-arrest-for-child-porn-was-not-a-privacy-violation&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;why-the-gmail-scan-that-le...&lt;/a&gt;</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>dharmaturtle</author><text>Apple&amp;#x27;s CSAM would scan your &lt;i&gt;offline&lt;/i&gt; photos.&lt;p&gt;Google scanning photos you upload to their cloud seems fine to me. Not a slippery slope.</text></item><item><author>anshumankmr</author><text>But seriously how long is it before Google implements a hashing algorithm (not too dissimilar from Apple&amp;#x27;s) to check if a user has not uploaded content with a copyright on it and taking some form of action on the user.&lt;p&gt;This feels like a slippery slope to be on.</text></item><item><author>RegnisGnaw</author><text>Note that you can still access your files, they are not blocking that or restricting that. Its the sharing that&amp;#x27;s blocked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jodrellblank</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;Apple&amp;#x27;s CSAM would scan your offline photos.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;No it wouldn&amp;#x27;t. It would only scan photos you upload to their cloud.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;This feature only impacts users who have chosen to use iCloud Photos to store their photos. It does not impact users who have not chosen to use iCloud Photos. There is no impact to any other on-device data.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Does this mean Apple is going to scan all the photos stored on my iPhone? No. By design, this feature only applies to photos that the user chooses to upload to iCloud Photos, and even then Apple only learns about accounts that are storing collections of known CSAM images, and only the images that match to known CSAM. The system does not work for users who have iCloud Photos disabled. This feature does not work on your private iPhone photo library on the device.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;child-safety&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;CSAM_Detection_Technical_Summary.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;child-safety&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;CSAM_Detection_Techni...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>