This is not client side. Images just sitting on your Android phone are probably safe (although Google could push an update at any time). Your images get scanned when you back them up, send them over RCS, etc. I have even seen criminal cases originating from reverse image search - anything that touche the servers of the big tech companies, except apparently Apple, will be scanned using questionable AI and against a secret list to Protect the Children.

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GeekyBear 3 hours ago | parent [-]

This is an image that he did not send off of his device to anyone except his doctor's office, yet Google reached into his private data and scanned it anyway.

Google reported him to the police based on a single false positive.

To add insult to injury, even after the police contacted Google to tell them that they had cleared him of wrongdoing, Google refused to restore access to his account.

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izacus 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Stop making stuff up man, the image was uploaded to Google Photos servers.

> The father uploaded photos of his son’s genitals, which were also backed up on his Google cloud, to the health care provider’s messaging system as requested.

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GeekyBear 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Did he set up his device to upload his private data to Google, or did Google create an OS that automatically sent everyone's private data to their AI server for scanning without explicit consent?

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izacus an hour ago | parent [-]

Google Photos does ask you for consent when you run it.

(It is, granted, a bit pushy about it and will ask multiple times when you run it with an intrusive dialog.)

	▲	GeekyBear 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Informed consent would require Google to inform you that their AI server will scan every photo you take with your device and report you to the police if it should detect (or hallucinate) something it doesn't like.

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wildfireday2 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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