I looked closely but I cannot find anything that says that paying customers are excluded. So I would assume it is included.

It makes sense, though, to enforce one single policy: otherwise, just becoming a paying customer would be a loophole to circumvent phishing etc policies.

I guess the crux here is when, exactly, they start scanning the content. Is that perhaps the moment the content is first shared?

It doesn’t seem to be documented.

> If so google is actually scanning what is supposed to be private information.

Am I just too cynical or are you naive for thinking they aren't datamining absolutely anything they can get their hands on?

Their policies for Workspace accounts has tight restrictions on what they are allowed to use your data for. So they shouldn't be "datamining absolutely anything that they can get their hands on".

The referenced FAQ doesn’t say that google workspace paid accounts are exempt from this policy…

There is a difference between "datamining" and scanning. they could very well be scanning files that were shared by workspace accounts. They just wouldn't be allowed to use the verdict for anything other than flagging the content as a ToS violation.

Logs are only useful if they are monitored.

This individual seems to look at events that happen that don’t align with their prejudices and assumes that the signal is an aberration.

Nihilists get burned. You have to hold people accountable for the consequences of their action rather than their intention.

Maybe they will compensate you with discounts on some of their upcoming offerings like Google Re-Education Camp or Google Kulak Liquidator. Kids, are your parents tainted with dangerous Bourgeois sentiments? Get a free $10 Amazon Gift Card for every tip you make on Google Informant.

If it's not end-to-end encrypted, it's not private from Google.

Google can and will scan anything you feed it.

I’m tempted to make a bunch of honeypot accounts just to see how Orwellian and/or gameable their system is.

What will trigger it? Fan pages to Trump/Qanon? Antivaxxer propaganda? The German federal police paper on how to clandestinely manufacture heroin? Or maybe just a 20mb text file with the “卐” character?!

If you do they will figure out your real identity and will terminate your real account without warning. I highly suggest you move everything out before that.

That is...true. Everything google account backed is now wiped from my iPhone. Just got to download the google drive stuff next.

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