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That reminds me the story about closing family wide Google accounts, because of a kid, whose account was managed by Google Family Link, was sending naked selfies to Gemini

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3104521/teenagers-gemini-mis...

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fwiw, google said that didn't happen.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-account-bans-3654171...

Not taking a side, but I remember that too and had looked later.

That said, I deliberately don't trust any google services. Fastmail is great; you all should try it. Google capriciously bans accounts, so keep your email elsewhere.

There was that father who sent some naked pictures of his kid to a nurse for a consultation. Google flagged the account for CSAM and reported him to the authorities. Even after being cleared of all charges, Google refused to reinstate his account, so he lost his digital life.

Tried to use modern technology for the health of his son and was digitally executed for it.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-cs...

I'm aware. Like I said, you're foolish to trust google. That said, the claim in the reddit post: that the ban spread across the entire gsuite account and also any account that used that device, is far more aggressive.

I talked about that case with a friend who used to work at Google and, whether or not that specific case was true, he did confirm that any CSAM at all in an account can very often make account recovery completely impossible.

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