This topic makes me so angry.. <br><br>Especially since law enforcement is often even more helpless than other people i know that can at least do something about the actual backend problem when it is not on a service like MEGA or Google... well at least for a few days until the stuff is recovered from a backup :-/<br><br>But this is a fight against windmills for anybody not controlling the hosting plattform.. <br>Which is why it makes me angry that google services often have stuff resurface (1:1 copies down to the hash) since especially google should have the tools and resources to prevent that and actually should be able to even detect that stuff by other means than simple hashing at least for known altered material.<br><br>And the sad thing is that those services that could prevent stuff from that surfacing better are just the tip of the iceberg, and i currently see no way of really containing this without strictly controlling the internet to a point even conservative folks would likely feel unconfortable on how little "freedom" remains as it would mean. <br><br>Considering how some images (and videos) end up on the internet in the first place also makes me angry since a lot of stuff ends up in the cloud because people don't even think about it when they take photos .. all that is left is a brach of the typically insecure password many use and these images are out on the net.<br><br>At least that is how i got notice of all of this as the daughter of someone i know had exactly that happen to her and asked me if there was anything to do to undo it... and the answer is sadly.. no. If they are on the internet all you can do is contact the hoster to take them down. The likelyhood of them having a copy made of them is usually not low and so they might resurfaces in those circles and if that happens you basically can't effectively remove them anymore as at that point there will likely be non online backups. <br><br>That is why it is so damn important as parents to not only talk to their children about such dangers of them taking photos themselves but also to turn off cloud functionality on devices used by children and to manage the access to the accounts, until they are old enough. <br>And that "fight" is only effective if many parents do it since taking photographs and videos isn't something that you can only do to yourself.