Comment by hoppyhoppy2
4 years ago
>Mark’s wife grabbed her husband’s phone and texted a few high-quality close-ups of their son’s groin area to her iPhone so she could upload them to the health care provider’s messaging system.
It sounds like it was probably the texting (maybe via the Google Messages app?) that got the images flagged, rather than the telehealth system.
> When Mark’s and Cassio’s photos were automatically uploaded from their phones to Google’s servers, this technology flagged them. Jon Callas of the E.F.F. called the scanning intrusive, saying a family photo album on someone’s personal device should be a “private sphere.” (A Google spokeswoman said the company scans only when an “affirmative action” is taken by a user; that includes when the user’s phone backs up photos to the company’s cloud.)
I assume it was triggered when the photos were backed up to Google Photos based on the above quote.