Today it’s for CSAM. Tomorrow it could be for saying anything negative about dear leader. Our Constitution clearly won’t protect us.
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Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
In the US companies are legally mandated to report specific things such as CSAM and other things if they come across it.
What the issue should be isn’t the fact that they are reporting it, the issue should be they have the capability to see it in the first place to be able to report it.
This isn’t me defending CSAM or anything like that but, in a decent storage system, google shouldn’t be able to even see what you have, let alone what the images actually are.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not to get too pedantic, but dammit I just got off the phone with a lawyer. The constitution itself never did anything directly to the public. It outlines the powers given to and withheld from the main branches of the federal government of the US. Those branches empower the agencies that you expect to protect you
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They not only look at your files but will decrypt any encrypted zip files to see what you have.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37086814
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That seems less like them decrypting encrypted archives and more like the zip format not encrypting filenames so they’re easily read from the zip’s metadata.
Which is still a privacy violation, to be clear, but not nearly on the same scale as somehow obtaining and using your passwords.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That was what someone claimed but it isn’t true. Filenames are not accessible in an encrypted zip.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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it depends on the type of zip encryption, the default doesn’t encrypt metadata
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They are visible, you can test yourself. Open an encrypted zip with 7zip and it’ll show the file list even without entering a password. The “encrypt file names” checkbox doesn’t even appear when creating an archive if the zip format is selected, so I’m not sure the format even supports it.