By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/10/2026There are plenty of things wrong with this, starting with the fact that it requires your device to secretly grab and transmit sensitive images from your phone, which might include sensitive images of your kids that were requested by their doctors. 161
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/10/2026This isn't a hypothetical: it's something that happened to a dad who subsequently lost his email, his login to every other account, his phone number, all of his files (including his tax records and his business data), and every photo he had ever taken of his family, without appeal. 141
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/10/2026This was all because Google automatically detected a photo he took of his son to send to the family pediatrician. Google also falsely accused this man of sexually abusing his child and sicced the SFPD on him: pluralistic.net/2022/08/22/a...pluralistic.netPluralistic: 22 Aug 2022 Gmail will call the cops on you based on the content of your emails – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 141
