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Remember that time Google deleted a guy's account and reported him to police for discussing his kid's health with their doctor?
https://archive.ph/lUfPr
Dude lost basically every picture of his kid since he was born because Google won't let him back into his Google drive, even after the police cleared him of any wrongdoing.
Some asshole is gonna respond "that's what he gets for trusting cloud storage" as if the problem with cloud storage isn't that big companies have people fooled into thinking it's safe. Yeah, you should keep local backups of everything in case of this exact scenario, kind of like how women should carry pepper spray in case they get assaulted in public. Don't blame victims for not taking every possible precaution.
Yet businesses do that all of the time. Although I think quite a lot of suing would happen if anyone deleted our data.
Just want to add one more thing:
You know you fucked up when the police are the good guys in the story.
If they’re so eager why didn’t they just get it done right away?
I assume it'd because it's someone's incredibly private information, and they want to make sure they don't give it to some random Joe. I know if the police had naked pictures of my kid, I'd be happy if the process of getting copies took more than just showing my ID and getting a thumb drive