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Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say (www.cbc.ca)

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de -4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They’re suggesting it was automated hash based recognition.

I don’t have a problem with CSAM hash matching.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sure, until it starts flagging normal pictures with its janky AI and you get your door kicked in based on a warrant signed by Google.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 8 points 1 day ago

This literally already happened here in Sweden. A guy got assaulted by masked police in the middle of the night because an American company had gone through photos in his Yahoo mail and flagged his 30 year old boyfriend as possible CSAM.

Long article in Swedish.

People like to think that Sweden is progressive etc. and I’d rebut it with this. If it can happen here, it could happen anywhere.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

my issue is that we have a framework for corporations to scan all your data and inform the state. used to stop CSAM, but it's a matter of state policy wether said structure will be used to fight discent.

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Eventually “sprinkle some crack on him” will turn into “put some CSAM in his google drive”

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago

I agree. We’ve seen this happening in the USA “yes technically they can do that but they would never”. Now we know better.

[–] org@lemmy.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"The first image in the 'Nudity' collection … depicted who I believe to be David Edward-Ooi Poon without a shirt, taking a selfie of himself while sticking out his tongue over an unconscious adult female," the search-warrant application states. The document goes on to describe the woman in the photo as naked below the waist and wearing a dark-coloured eye mask over her eyes.

The detective alleges that that photograph and others she examined appeared to be stored in a folder on the iPhone titled "Girls I Drugged And Raped."

Doesn’t sound like hashes to me.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That is the result of the search warrant, not the trigger.