{"id":1618826,"date":"2022-08-22T11:12:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618826"},"modified":"2022-08-22T11:12:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:12:30","slug":"google-triggers-criminal-investigation-after-dad-takes-photos-of-his-toddler-naked-for-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-triggers-criminal-investigation-after-dad-takes-photos-of-his-toddler-naked-for-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Triggers Criminal Investigation After Dad Takes Photos Of His Toddler, Naked, For Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgoogle-triggers-criminal-investigation-after-dad-takes-photos-of-his-toddler-naked-for-doctor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618826&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-18T183907Z_5_LYNXMPEI7H0KJ_RTROPTP_4_ALPHABET-GOOGLE-CAMPUS-scaled-e1661175839135.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Google triggered a criminal investigation and locked a man out of his accounts after flagging photos he sent to his son\u2019s pediatrician as potential child pornography, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The tech company initially flagged the images when they were automatically uploaded to Google servers from the father\u2019s phone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/21\/technology\/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the NYT. After a nearly year-long investigation of everything in his Google account, including search history, location history, messages and photos, police determined he hadn\u2019t committed a crime.<\/p>\n<p>The father, referred to only as Mark by the NYT, had taken photos of his young son, naked, at the request of a doctor over concerns about his infected penis, according to the NYT. Google quickly locked him out of his account after scanning the photos, and he lost emails, contacts and personal photos and had to get a new phone number after losing access to his Google Fi account.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Privacy is more important than ever. Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GML2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GML2022<\/a> to learn more \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5OdGdM8ooZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/5OdGdM8ooZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BYFBoAEhyF\">pic.twitter.com\/BYFBoAEhyF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Google Ads (@GoogleAds) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoogleAds\/status\/1529196610831503361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI knew that these companies were watching and that privacy is not what we would hope it to be,\u201d Mark, who happens to be a software engineer who had worked on a tech company\u2019s tool for flagging problematic content, told the NYT. \u201cBut I haven\u2019t done anything wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A similar story played out for a a father referred to only as Cassio, who was also flagged by <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/09\/google-data-center-explosion-three-injured-omaha-council-bluffs-iowa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google<\/a> after the company\u2019s software flagged photographs he had taken of his son at the request of a pediatrician, according to the NYT. Those photos also triggered a scan after being automatically uploaded to Google servers, and Google locked Cassio out of his accounts in the middle of buying a house. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/29\/cdc-google-facebook-twitter-collusion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: CDC Worked Hand In Hand With Big Tech To Control The COVID Narrative, Emails Show)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google only scans users\u2019 photos when they take an affirmative action, a Google spokesman told the NYT, but that action can include the automatic uploading of user photos to Google Photos or other Google servers. After artificial intelligence scanners detect a red flag on a user\u2019s photos, a human moderator looks over the photos to determine whether they qualify as child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis is precisely the nightmare that we are all concerned about,\u201d Jon Callas, a technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil liberties organization, told the NYT. \u201cThey\u2019re going to scan my family album, and then I\u2019m going to get into trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/08\/congress-missed-chance-big-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google<\/a> did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google triggered a criminal investigation and locked a man out of his accounts after flagging photos he sent to his son\u2019s pediatrician as potential child pornography, according to The New<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}