Google Abuse
Mark Seiden
mis at seiden.com
Tue Aug 16 19:47:58 UTC 2022
well, that isn’t exactly true.
ALL of the fraudsters, business email compromisers, spoofing accounts are now from gmail and as far as i can tell,
there is no evidence that they do ANYTHING about them. i recently gave a talk on fraudulent restaurant reviews
in google maps. easy for humans to spot. (hundreds of machine learning engineers at google. what are they doing?)
but here’s a counterexample… not that it serves anyone particularly well:
a colleague of mine (ex googler, superb engineer, with a brother who is a current googler) had ALL of his google accounts
deactivated recently. a google fi customer, he used it to send an mms photo of a rash on his toddler’s crotch to his wife,
so she could upload it (using https) to their pediatrician’s portal for diagnosis.
a few days later the cops were at the door with a search warrant. the cops agreed it was a false positive, but despite that,
the accounts were deactivated (including gmail), seemingly permanently, despite multiple attempts to revive it and attempts
at escalation.
i was actually surprised. i thought that google fi was a neutral pipe.
who knew that google mines mms images for pink parts?
do the other cell phone companies do the same? (not that i particularly need to test it…)
(is there any transparency here regarding the scanning and retention policy for sms and mms contents?)
which raises, in the post-boggs world, another question:
are google, like fb, recording and retaining direct messages and sms/mms contents, so they can turn them over
to law enforcement who have become “interested" in who was pregnant and who stopped being pregnant?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police-to-prosecute-a-teenager-for-abortion
(once again, there ain’t no sanity clause.)
> On Aug 16, 2022, at 10:43 AM, Jon Lewis <jlewis at lewis.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2022, Cristian Cardoso wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I'm receiving thousands of requests from a Google Clou VM on my network, I've already sent reports to Abuse from GCP, but without success, does anyone happen to have a Google abuse
>> contact to indicate?
>
> There is no Google abuse. It's just traffic you don't want that they don't care about. Block it at your edge and move on.
>
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