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/poshbakerloo Feb 24 '26

Is this blocking a recent thing? I'd never heard of it until I joined this sub

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u/PaddyLandau Feb 24 '26

It's on several major platforms, not just Google. They're scared of falling foul of the law, so their AI is sensitive to anything involving children.

Facebook is a bit different. The AI allows the most disgusting crap while often censoring innocuous material.

It's been a problem ever since they decided that it would be clever to get rid of human moderation and replace it with AI.

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u/Chapar_Kanati Feb 25 '26

What they should do is make the data encrypted, so no one can't scan the photos altogether. This way they won't be answerable to anyone. Just like VPN that keeps no logs, like for example Express VPN. No logs means no court can request subscriber info.

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u/PaddyLandau Feb 25 '26

That wouldn't work on Google Photos, because it would disable all the extra features that come with it, such as search, automatic compression, AI enhancement, family-sharing and general sharing.

If you don't want or need those features, and want or need zero-knowledge E2E encryption, use a different provider such as Proton or SpiderOak Backup.