Google refuses to reinstate a Google Fi and Google app customer who was cleared by law enforcement when he took photos of his son for medical reasons.
) had his Google accounts shut down after taking medical pictures of his son's groin. The photos were taken because the father thought that his son's groin looked inflamed and he wanted a doctor to diagnose and treat his son. The Doctor did use the image to come up with a diagnosis and he also prescribed a course of antibiotics.
Two days after the photos were uploaded, Google shut down everything under the father's name which included a Google Fi account.report noted that Google called Mark on the phone to tell him that it considered the images of his son to be"harmful content" that was seen as"a severe violation of the company’s policies and might be illegal." The father found out later that Google flagged a video on his phone and the San Francisco police started an investigation.
"These companies have access to a tremendously invasive amount of data about people's lives. And still they don’t have the context of what people's lives actually are," said Daniel Kahn Gillmor, a senior staff technologist at the ACLU. He adds that"There's all kinds of things where just the fact of your life is not as legible to these information giants."
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