I don't believe that Google can or does scan the contents of your Android phone, however, I'm sure they do with Gmail attachments & Google Drive. Based on the story, his wife only took the pics with his phone and texted them to hers. It's possible that "Mark" has cloud storage of his photos album on the phone enabled, which is where they got him. I refuse to believe, without evidence, that Google even has the ability to look at your data when it is only stored locally on your phone and not on their servers.
“Mark” should file a B&P 17200 lawsuit against Google attacking them for:
snooping on his private photos without clear disclosure & consent, which certainly violates California state privacy rights, and
wrongfully banning his account despite the fact that he didn't violate any rule (which is a violation of their own rules, and therefore fraud in that their stated rules are fraudulent, google ignores them in practice)
He has ownership rights in his Gmail contents and ought to be able to at the very least download a full digital copy of all his emails and their attachments. I use gmail as my work email and have 10+ years of litigation documents and communications on there. If I got cut off from my gmail, it would be a major problem in my cases.
In discovery, he should expose exactly what Google is doing to spy, and exactly how it's sham "appeals" process works.
If you think google's not snooping on your android phone I've got a bridge to sell to you.
Seriously, all big tech is spying on you, Snowden has exposed it over a decade ago by now, Google was part of the PRISM program(so were Apple, Facebook etc). They don't DIRECTLY spy on you, they still spy on you as a whole.
You cannot replace the default dialer without rooting, meaning that apps will still query google's call handling processes and cannot be redirected even if you disable the default calling and text apps.
I wish I knew my manufacturer would refuse to give me unlock codes.
I refuse to believe, without evidence, that Google even has the ability to look at your data when it is only stored locally on your phone and not on their servers.
And that is reasonable. Perhaps, this why they push cloud photo storage on people. Every new phone does.
They don't need to secretly scrape your phone's storage if everything you do is part of your Google drive or your gmail. This guy may have actually gmail'ed the photos. It's what the phone is setup to do.
I don't believe that Google can or does scan the contents of your Android phone, however, I'm sure they do with Gmail attachments & Google Drive. Based on the story, his wife only took the pics with his phone and texted them to hers. It's possible that "Mark" has cloud storage of his photos album on the phone enabled, which is where they got him. I refuse to believe, without evidence, that Google even has the ability to look at your data when it is only stored locally on your phone and not on their servers.
“Mark” should file a B&P 17200 lawsuit against Google attacking them for:
snooping on his private photos without clear disclosure & consent, which certainly violates California state privacy rights, and
wrongfully banning his account despite the fact that he didn't violate any rule (which is a violation of their own rules, and therefore fraud in that their stated rules are fraudulent, google ignores them in practice)
He has ownership rights in his Gmail contents and ought to be able to at the very least download a full digital copy of all his emails and their attachments. I use gmail as my work email and have 10+ years of litigation documents and communications on there. If I got cut off from my gmail, it would be a major problem in my cases.
In discovery, he should expose exactly what Google is doing to spy, and exactly how it's sham "appeals" process works.
If you think google's not snooping on your android phone I've got a bridge to sell to you.
Seriously, all big tech is spying on you, Snowden has exposed it over a decade ago by now, Google was part of the PRISM program(so were Apple, Facebook etc). They don't DIRECTLY spy on you, they still spy on you as a whole.
It's fucking surreal that Facebook has "profiles" for people without an account.
This shit always scares me. I've blocked all of facebook on my end as good as I can but you can only do so much.
You cannot replace the default dialer without rooting, meaning that apps will still query google's call handling processes and cannot be redirected even if you disable the default calling and text apps.
I wish I knew my manufacturer would refuse to give me unlock codes.
And that is reasonable. Perhaps, this why they push cloud photo storage on people. Every new phone does.
They don't need to secretly scrape your phone's storage if everything you do is part of your Google drive or your gmail. This guy may have actually gmail'ed the photos. It's what the phone is setup to do.