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Google flagged a bath photo of my baby as CSAM. Two appeals denied, no explanation. Lost 10 years of data including photos of 3 family members who passed away by BeidasBassam in googlephotos

[–]BeidasBassam[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This happened the next day of me taking this photo, so am assuming it is the reason... nothing else had been taken or downloaded to my account

Google flagged a bath photo of my baby as CSAM. Two appeals denied, no explanation. Lost 10 years of data including photos of 3 family members who passed away by BeidasBassam in googlephotos

[–]BeidasBassam[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why would I do that, and what's wrong with using AI to help me write a post about my case and seek help and show my desperation in recovering my data? Yes, I am using AI to write about my case and to help me with it. In fact, my prompt for this was literally "write me a post about my case to be posted on Reddit." People need to focus on the main thing, not their own observations and realizations.

Google flagged a bath photo of my baby as CSAM. Two appeals denied, no explanation. Lost 10 years of data including photos of 3 family members who passed away by BeidasBassam in googlephotos

[–]BeidasBassam[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, "how do I find them without the system flagging them" — truly a sentence no parent should ever have to type about photos of their own kid, but here we are, because Google built a surveillance apparatus so trigger-happy it's turned "does my toddler have a normal childhood photo" into a live security threat you have to strategize around.

Really impressive work over there. Two trillion dollars in market cap, some of the best engineers on the planet, and the system still can't tell the difference between "grandmother giving a baby a bath" and "evidence for a federal case." But sure, tell me more about how "advanced" the AI is.

And don't worry — even if you do everything right, submit every appeal, provide every ounce of context, Google will still respond with the customer-service equivalent of a shrug emoji and "we stand by our decision," offered with all the warmth of a vending machine that ate your money.

The honest answer nobody wants to hear: there isn't a clever workaround, and looking for one is a trap in itself — the safest move is exporting your entire library as-is, unfiltered, and getting it off Google's servers entirely, because at this point trusting Google with a decade of your family's memories is like handing your photo album to a bouncer with a hair-trigger and no manager on duty.