They not only look at your files but will decrypt any encrypted zip files to see what you have.
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Pika@sh.itjust.works 16 hours 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.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2 hours 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.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Today it’s for CSAM. Tomorrow it could be for saying anything negative about dear leader. Our Constitution clearly won’t protect us.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 hours 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