I disabled google photos a year ago when I learned the pictures you take are basically Google's property,(reply>), HA.. I wonder how long it took you to notice that..,(reply>), @Chris Delisa No. They have immunity.,(reply>), I think it should be said that this is just as likely happening within any or all of the cloud services we use for storing and sharing our private data. How do I know? Because Apple, Dropbox, Photo Circle and all the others promise privacy and security to their customers. Most who use these service have never read the Terms and Conditions," but most assume their pictures are not being scanned by anyone or anything without their permission. I sure as hell don't want a company scanning my photo albums for content. <br><br>The crimes discussed in this video are some of the worst. It's disgusting", it's sad and it needs to be stopped. Every law enforcement agency across the country should have most of their budget allocated to stopping this. Please read and seek to understand the what else is at stake here. Like many other issues in our society there are many factors to consider when discussing issues like this. We want to protect the most vulnerable in our society by all means necessary," no matter the cost. What if the price we pay as a society is losing fundamental rights outlined in the U.S. Constitution? This is an extremely complicated and very difficult to fully understand issue we face as a society. In my view we have not even begun to fully understand how to properly address most of the new challenges brought on by social media. <br><br>Further complicating things for this issue is that Google Photos is not "social" or public. One commenter said "YouTube flags this stuff so why not Photos?". YouTube is social - it's a public forum. So yes"," Google has a responsibility to regulate the content. Google Photos is a service that is intended to be private. It would not be a service considered usable for privacy minded people if they knew Google was scanning all images for content. <br><br>Another user eludes to a father being shut out of Google services because he emailed a picture of his son to a doctor. That is exactly the type of thing that would happen if companies started scanning every private image housed in their data centers. How could companies avoid false flags? They'd need to have all flagged images reviewed by a human to confirm the content. Is this the path we want to go down? Do you want all of your images scanned by a corporation and potentially viewed by others? Especially others that in many instances will struggle as much as a computer to determine the age and appropriateness of the subject matter. Maybe we can just trust that these companies will get it right why don't we harness the technology already at our fingertips and just go to the source. We could require all camera manufacturers to build in filters that flag or prevent bad images from being taken in the first place. That would stop the problem", yes? Except," no it wouldn't because the issue is much more complicated. <br><br>It's sickens me to see that this is happening and law enforcement should spend every cent of their budget working to stop activity like this. All of the time and resources police departments waste on other initiatives is a topic for another day. That said I don't think we solve this by asking corporations to do the work of law enforcement. We have enough issues asking law enforcement to be law enforcement.",(reply>), @Joe Mama well also with open source you have forking, so the community can create a new version of a software without the bug if the devs do nothing about it like wiht audacity,(reply>), @Truth Does Not Exist You should read further into the comments, because you're not the first to voice this. <br>I agreed a long time ago,<br>Rarely are there absolutes in everything in life.<br><br>At the same time,<br>open source also still has it's security risks, and this was highlighted with Apache bug 1-2yrs ago.<br><br>Open Source, you're expected to share bugs.<br>China has highlighted that there, you are not allowed.<br>Any bugs found, are required to be shared internally first, privately, (not to the open source community) for their MSS (China's NSA/CIA) to exploit.<br><br>For the most part,<br>I completely agree that open source is safer.