I have pictures of my kids doing silly things in the tub. This is gonna be fun.
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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I'd remove those from your backups. There was a situation a while back where a guy has his Google account shut down because he sent pictures of his child's skin rash to his doctor, and the photos were flagged as CSAM when he uploaded them.
Edit: A bit late, but here's an article about it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-csam-account-blocked
Same. What parent doesn't have tub pics of their little kids? This is concerning and pushing me closer to Calyx/Graphene.
As the commenter above you mentioned regarding doctors, I have photos that probably look worse than fun in the bath pictures. As a parent, I have taken at least a handful of close up photos of genitals (and in earlier years, anuses) to show to a doctor with a befuddled and embarrassed tone of "so, is this normal? It looks weird, I was worried!" I mean to delete them, but sometimes I forget until I run into them accidentally much later on. TBH, I wish it was only on my device with no Google photos syncing, but I have also sent those to a friend's wife who is a pediatrician for a sanity check before I go on wasting a doctor's appointment over nothing...
I recently volunteered at my kids school and had to take the mandatory reporter training, which taught me that along with teachers, coaches, etc, people working at photo labs are also mandated reporters (in my state in the US), which really drove it home... I can only imagine some poor photo tech at Walmart in the 90s having to deal with finding and reporting child abuse, fuck....
Well pretty soon the FBI will have them too!
I think Elon and trump are just fishing for the freshest of meat to beat their meat to
fuck googel!
Some of the 5-star reviews are jokes, and others are just bizarre!
Oh, so it's an on-device service initially used to stop accidental sharing of nudes and available as a service call to other apps for that and other types of content.
Look, I'm not saying you can't be creeped out by phones automatically categorizing the content of your photos. I'm saying you're what? Five, ten years late to that and killing this instance won't do much about it. Every gallery app on Android is doing this. How the hell did you think searching photos by content was working? The default Android Gallery app by Google does it, Google Photos sure as hell does it, Samsung's Gallery does it. The very minimum I've seen is face matching for people.
This is one of those things where gen-AI panic gets people to finally freak out about things big data brokers have been doing for ages (using ML, too).
It's almost a certainty they're checking the hashes of your pics against a database of known csam hashes as well. Which, in and of itself isn't necessarily wrong, but you just know scope creep will mean they'll be checking for other "controversial" content somewhere down the line...
As one Google Play Store customer said: "No consent given, install could not be paused or stopped. I watched it install itself on my phone on January 22, 2025 (couldn't pause or cancel it) AND it did all of that over mobile network (my settings are to never download or install anything unless I'm on Wi-Fi). Description tells you nothing. Permissions are for virtually EVERYTHING."
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However, some have reported that SafetyCore reinstalled itself during system updates or through Google Play Services, even after uninstalling the service. If this happens, you'll need to uninstall SafetyCore again, which is annoying.
I've said that this is possible multiple times and people have straight up to me "you don't understand how android security works - this is impossible". Well, here we are...
Fuck google! Thank GOS for improving my security without some weird apps like this lmao