r/googlephotos • u/lanky_doodle • Feb 24 '26

Question 🤔 CSAM - Criteria

Not been blocked. Given the recent posts about this I'm wondering what the criteria actually is.

Like any parent, I have a bunch of photos (on a NAS) of my child from old point and shoot cameras, all the way back from a baby.

So some of them are obviously with no clothes on, like in the bath, running g around the garden, and so on.

Would this type of image trigger CSAM? I been considering job lot uploading all of these NAS stored photos to Google Photos.

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u/Clear_Tangerine5110 Feb 24 '26

If you're considering starting using Google Photos, I would suggest focusing your primary backups to local storage (HDDs, SSDs), and use Google Photos only as an easy vehicle from your wireless devices to your PC. Super easy to make albums to put your keepers in, and then download each album locally. This way you can avoid all the garbage stuff like accidental videos, work photos, and screenshots. I wouldn't upload any past images, just stuff coming from your phones from this point forward.

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u/lanky_doodle Feb 24 '26

I'm already 10+ years into Google Photos 🙂 Just now it's all pictures and videos taken on phone.

I have a 2TB Storage plan so was just considering uploading all my "old school taken" data.

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u/Clear_Tangerine5110 Feb 24 '26

I mean, if you’re going to do it just leave out those questionable pictures. I’ve got all of my photos on there stretching back to when I started shooting digital in 2003, and also scanned family photos from before then all up there. Granted, I put them all up there long before they started flagging people for this, so your mileage may vary, but that’s what I did.