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[776.70 --> 791.82] Now, picking back up on the theme of this episode of perhaps we should know better and not be surprised when big companies get hacked or do things with our data that we don't particularly like or agree with, |
[792.36 --> 800.08] there was an article in the New York Times this week about a gentleman whose young child, toddler, I think, had some kind of a medical issue. |
[800.08 --> 818.58] And as part of the telemedicine procedure that this father, worried parent, was doing, he uploaded some pictures of genitalia, of his child's genitalia, to his Android phone's Google automatic photos backup. |
[819.22 --> 827.80] And as a consequence, he ended up being flagged not only by Google, but by the police and law enforcement. |
[827.80 --> 830.90] Well, Google notified them automatically, so conveniently. |
[831.08 --> 837.72] Also sent them his entire Google account history, every search, all his location history, all of his text messages. |
[838.30 --> 840.80] They sent everything that he put in there since the early aughts. |
[841.78 --> 843.40] They sent it all over to the cops automatically. |
[844.22 --> 846.20] You know, the details of this are kind of interesting. |
[846.66 --> 848.78] So the wife took the pictures on her iPhone. |
[850.02 --> 853.62] She texted them to her husband because he was the one interfacing with the doctor. |
[854.62 --> 857.78] His Android automatically backed them up to Google Photos. |
[857.80 --> 865.80] Then Google's system detected these photos, flagged their child abuse team. |
[866.24 --> 872.80] They reviewed this guy's kid's crotch pictures, and then they sent it all off to the cops automatically. |
[874.08 --> 880.30] They, at that point, then disabled his Google account, which also disabled his Google Fi cell phone service. |
[880.44 --> 884.40] So then the police could no longer get a hold of him, which became an issue later. |
[884.40 --> 887.16] And they just presumed he was guilty. |
[887.68 --> 896.90] And I think the thing that I find disturbing about this is these are not pictures that are in an existing CSAM model database of known child pornography. |
[896.90 --> 907.90] These are brand new bespoke pictures that Google identified as child porn in this guy's Google photo database and then initiated this entire auto flag service. |
[907.90 --> 910.90] And he's this Mark. |
[910.90 --> 912.54] Mark, we only have his first name. |
[913.00 --> 914.16] He's not the only one. |
[914.52 --> 924.44] The New York Times article, which we'll link to in the show notes, talks about another dad that this happened to around the same time, because, of course, more people are using telemedicine now. |
[925.58 --> 926.76] And so it's happening more and more. |
[926.76 --> 940.94] And the other little detail in this story that's horrible, besides the fact that this guy's cell phone service was turned off, the police have notified Google that they've cleared him and Google refuses to turn his account back on. |
[941.18 --> 942.74] And this is true for the other ones as well. |
[943.28 --> 946.06] This is really what gets me going about this particular story. |
[946.72 --> 956.10] At what point did we as a society decide that Google were now the law, right? |
[956.10 --> 970.92] This guy, you know, the people that we have chosen as society to say, you are the one who decides whether someone has committed a crime or not, the police, detective, whatever it might be, FBI, whoever. |
[972.06 --> 979.38] At some point, Google, without really realizing it, probably have more power over you than that individual does. |
[979.38 --> 993.20] Because not only are you locked out of your cell service, you're also locked out of, was it 15 plus years worth of correspondence and PDF receipts and all the other stuff that ends up in everybody's Gmail inboxes? |
[993.20 --> 1003.06] Yeah. And the other dad who also got flagged was in the middle of a mortgage deal and was trying to like get papers to sign to buy his house and they were in his Gmail inbox. |
[1003.22 --> 1012.72] And because Gmail did this, because Gmail got turned off, he had to ask the broker to switch to a new email account, which then flagged him for fraud. |
[1012.72 --> 1020.36] And they thought that was suspicious, which then threw his entire mortgage back into review because his Gmail account got disabled. |
[1020.36 --> 1030.16] I think the saddest thing for me about this, and by this I mean sort of modern tech, Google, Apple, Facebook, or this kind of surveillance culture, |
[1030.40 --> 1042.88] is that we've ended up spiraling into this user manipulation, user surveillance space without, honestly, in autopilot, without really realizing that we were doing it. |
[1042.88 --> 1049.60] Piece by piece by piece, little by little, all of these little apps have eroded into our little worlds. |
[1049.82 --> 1055.50] And, you know, now Google Photos is a fundamental part of my personal photo backup strategy. |
[1056.36 --> 1060.46] I have a young child and, you know, I take pictures of her in the bath. |
[1060.94 --> 1066.30] At what point do I run the risk of Google flagging my images and having my stuff locked out? |
[1066.38 --> 1069.26] You know, it's not unlikely at this point. |
[1069.26 --> 1073.68] We also know that these classifiers and these models don't always get it right. |
[1073.88 --> 1078.86] Computer vision is still early, and everybody listening to this show knows that's a fact. |
[1079.02 --> 1080.68] Hot dog, not a hot dog. |
[1081.32 --> 1081.62] Right. |
[1081.82 --> 1085.34] And the reality is these things could get it wrong. |
[1086.36 --> 1094.88] And the best case scenario in that situation is that a team of people at Google are looking at whatever private pictures you have, |
[1095.00 --> 1096.56] and you never even know anything happened. |
[1096.56 --> 1103.80] But back in Google's headquarters, a group of human beings are looking at your private pictures because they've been flagged. |
[1103.88 --> 1105.24] That's the best case scenario. |
[1105.64 --> 1105.82] Right. |
[1106.06 --> 1111.56] And the worst case scenario is what's happened to Mark here, where everything got shut off, |
[1111.74 --> 1116.76] and then his entire account was downloaded and sent to the cops to review. |
[1116.76 --> 1124.90] Where if Mark, at any point in the last 15 years, had done something else illegal, it would be in there. |
[1125.26 --> 1131.70] Emails, text messages, photos, all of his location information, every place he ever went on Google Maps, |
[1132.00 --> 1137.60] every search request he's ever made into Google, every single Google Doc, every spreadsheet he's ever created, |
[1137.60 --> 1139.32] everything got sent to the cops. |
[1139.66 --> 1140.80] They could review that. |
[1141.28 --> 1145.04] And, you know, I mean, maybe some people will come out squeaky clean, and maybe others, |
[1145.78 --> 1146.76] there'd be something else in there. |
[1146.82 --> 1149.68] And I don't know what happens there, but I doubt it just gets deleted. |
[1150.18 --> 1152.34] You know, it's just, the precedent here is horrible. |
[1152.34 --> 1157.38] Around the time of Brexit, I remember having a discussion with a family member about, |
[1157.88 --> 1161.16] well, I've got nothing to hide, so I've got nothing to fear, right? |
[1161.20 --> 1167.50] And I think this is the insidious conclusion of that I've got nothing to hide. |
[1167.70 --> 1172.62] You know, this is a perfectly innocent, legitimate use case of taking a photograph like that. |
[1173.08 --> 1174.86] And it's landed this guy in a lot of trouble. |
[1175.18 --> 1179.40] I'm not totally familiar with wire-tapping laws on this side of the pond, |
[1179.40 --> 1185.14] but I do wonder if legislation needs to catch up with this kind of thing. |
[1185.32 --> 1192.26] Because as far as I'm aware, at least, it's a federal crime to wire-tap somebody without their permission or consent, |
[1192.68 --> 1194.42] without some kind of a court order. |
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