They Will Ban You

“I wish I could enjoy my Google Photos Recap too. My account was wrongly disabled over an innocent family photo. I've already followed every process and appeal with no human help. 10+ years of memories of my son and late father are still locked away. Please help.”

“I work in the medical field, and I am worried Google may have seen some patient-related medical images and misunderstood them as abusive or inappropriate content.”

“Experiencing it myself, I can see how automated systems can destroy innocent people's digital lives without meaningful human review.”

“Google doesn't care, they denied both my appeals and have caused me to get locked out of literally 95% of my accounts.”

“I knew that these companies were watching and that privacy is not what we would hope it to be. But I haven't done anything wrong.”

“The idea of Google scanning my photos with an AI and deciding whether or not to give me my account back, which contains 20 years of email, photos, access to all my other online accounts etc, is madness.”

“I am terrified of losing it all just because of a flipping NSFW meme or something that I was sent when I was a kid.”

“The lack of transparency to this process has me very sensitive about not doing anything to get banned again.”

“I had a full blown panic attack last night and was nearly throwing up from the stress of being accused of something this horrific.”

“A picture of my 6 month old in a skeleton onesie with a hood was flagged as csam. I appealed and got my account back.”

“Suddenly when I go today to check it, this account is already disabled for a false report.”

“This account was very important to me. It had my emails, contacts, photos, documents, and personal work. Losing it has been very stressful.”

“Right now I have lost all my trust in Google. I feel like I can lose access to my data at any time.”

“I was given only two appeals and both were denied. I had this account for over 15 years and it was quite important to me. The loss is quite devastating.”

“Unfortunately, chatting with humans made no difference. I got the usual corporate speak about policies, privacy and bullshit.”

“The system flagged a CSAM violation, but it is a clear false positive. I was simply digitizing my own childhood photos from the 1990s.”

“I've never had anything like that in my account, and the message completely shocked me.”

“My account got permanent banned due to this automatic upload of a album cover from Youtube Music app.”

“I was terribly wrong to use Google to back up 10 years of my life. Now it's all gone....”

“I only had pictures of my family, relatives & their children. Now all my data is gone and I don't have a backup.”

“Would the appeal see the difference? I don't know what to do. I've got hundreds of hours worth of written materials very important to me in docs.”

“All I did was take some pics of my 1-day old nephew in his diapers. Google Photos auto backed up them and the next day my account was banned.”

“Close family member gave birth recently and I took photos of them and the new born which were uploaded to Google Photos. This ended up disabling my account.”

“I think the only thing that come close to making google disabling my account is because my childhood photo with my friend.”

“I'm likely going to stop using Google services, or at minimal just not waste time chasing my account if it's not worth putting that effort into.”

“I will never use Google systems again, and if I am forced to use Drive, I will never upload anything without encryption. I hate you deeply.”

“I haven't used Google drive for a few months and the only pictures in there are of my daughter and family. So how the hell have I been flagged?”

“I was backing up photos from my mother's phone, which included a pic of my nephew (under 3 years old) not wearing a shirt. Google flagged it (wut ?)”

“I don't use Photos, I have just one folder in Drive. There is no explanation, yet the Gmail account that I've been using for years was disabled.”

“I don't have NSFW photos or anything else, just normal family photos. I submitted an appeal yesterday, which was rejected today.”

“Google literally destroyed my life! They gave themselves the right to delete my own stuff without allowing to takeout my data.”

“Unfortunately, nobody thinks it will happen to them until it happens to them.”