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.

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)

In discovery, he should expose exactly what Google is doing to spy, and exactly how it's sham "appeals" process works.