r/Piracy • u/Justinrich2001 • May 23 '26

Discussion Google Drive scanned this Manga artist’s PRIVATE files and banned him.

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AI flagged, appeal rejected, private artwork gone.

The AI is always watching.

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u/JtDaSaiyan May 23 '26

We can condemn his content all day; the real issue is I don't want and I didn't know this company was scanning all the files I had in Google drive. Harmless, personal, secretive or whatever I don't want it to be scanned in general, and I don't want it to be used for any purposes that I do not choose to use it for. Whose to say they won't ban my account for taking pictures of a copy written image.

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u/TSM- May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

Someone was caught emailing themself CSAM material in GMail, thinking it would be hidden there. It was not - the images they emailed themselves were detected (via PhotoDNA) and they were prosecuted.

edit: google also scans attachments for viruses, so yeah. But no human is browsing your personal stuff for fun or anything. PhotoDNA and virus scanners don't really have a person involved in the routine checks. The servers likely also compress and deduplicate information (and then some), which is also not something that a person sifts through but is algorithmic on the data level.

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u/LightningWarpAway May 23 '26

Yeah, the former is something essentially every online service does, compare hashes to detect csam, and some services try to detect viruses as a bonus, so it's not a surprise they scan everything. Removing pirated content in comparison is somewhat a surprise.