This is the fundamental flaw in cloud moderation: Google scans your files for “policy violations.” The system cannot distinguish between an artist archiving their own legally published work and someone uploading prohibited material. When the consequences include losing access to email, documents, calendars, and every service linked to that account, the cost of a false positive becomes catastrophic.
Something similar happened to a man who had photos of his own children on his Google Drive. They alerted to police due to possible CSAM. Got the guy wrapped up in a couple months of legal trouble.
People really need to learn how bad cloud storage is and why hosting locally is crucial for security and your own safety.
Host locally. Encrypt. Don’t trust any company with storing your sensitive files.
The solution is to encrypt or store locally. Google is selling access to your shit to the feds for taxpayer dollars. You’re literally paying to be surveilled.
In addition to the posters comments, back your shit up also.
For me, all my truenas data is encrypted and sent to backblaze. Even file names are encrypted.
My only worry is if quantum computing becomes a reality and my encryption becomes worthless.
My only worry is if quantum computing becomes a reality and my encryption becomes worthless.
Quantum computing only breaks public-key encryption (the kind used for data in transit, like HTTPS). It can somewhat speed up brute-force attacks against symmetric-key encryption (the kind used for data at rest), but just use a nice, long key and you’ll be fine.
Then we’ll have quantum encyption to counter it!
Doesn’t matter if they never delete your data and decrypt the old one 💀
Ever heard MC Frontalot’s “Secrets from the Future”?
Oh man, I hope he had local/hard drive copies
