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Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by sodality2 on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @07:32PM (#28451120)
>So to be 100% clear on this: if you tell someone information, and they think about that information, that's a violation of your privacy?

If your phone began analyzing your local photos for child porn, you'd probably be upset, no?

>This is a completely reasonable concern to hold, but surely "they could possibly do something bad later" applies to every email provider in existence.

True, but google is CURRENTLY abusing it by selling ads to me based on it.

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Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by sellyme on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:53PM (#28465327)
> If your phone began analyzing your local photos for child porn, you'd probably be upset, no?

Yep. "local" here is the key word, though. If a service I uploaded photos to began doing that, I would not be upset. And indeed, just about every image-hosting website in existence already does this, because they're legally required to.

Gmail is markedly not a local service.

> True, but google is CURRENTLY abusing it by selling ads to me based on it.

This makes it seem like your concern is with the advertisement funding model, not with privacy.

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