That’s not the whole story. They didn’t reinstate his account because of another, medically unnecessary, photo of the kid in bed with his nude wife.
"the subsequent review of his account turned up a video from six months earlier that Google also considered problematic, of a young child lying in bed with an unclothed woman."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/tech...
"Private and secure" - private and secure from other people. Never from Google. Never from the US government.