Dad branded a paedo after sending photos of his toddler to a doctor for diagnosis
dailystar.co.uklockdown found himself accused of child abuse after Google flagged the images.In February 2021 Mark, a stay-at-home dad from San Francisco, California, became concerned when his son complained of a painful swelling in his groin.With lockdown still in effect, Mark’s wife made a video call to the family doctor’s surgery.
She spoke to a nurse who asked her to send a few photos to help the doctor make a diagnosis. READ MORE: Google to hand over video footage from your home to police without your permissionShe did so, and the doctor prescribed a course of antibiotics that cleared up the infection fairly quickly.But that was just the beginning of Mark’s problems.
He had been holding the toddler while his wife was taking the pictures and his hands were clearly visible in some of the snaps.Two days after he sent the photos of his son, reports the New York Times, Mark got an alert on his Android phone.
He was advised that his Google account had been locked because of “harmful content” that was “a severe violation of Google’s policies and might be illegal.”He later learned that Google had forwarded the entirely innocent photos of his son to local law enforcement.“I knew that these companies were watching and that privacy is not what we would hope it to be,” Mark said.
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