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The table only proves the point. The lowest probability in the table is 1 in 100_000. Most others are 1 in 100.

28 billion photos are uploaded every week to Google Photos[1]. That’s at least 280k false positives per week.

Should we really be performing 30 search warrants on innocent people per second?

[1] https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-changes/



Do you have any evidence that this is happening? You don't think someone would have noticed by now if it were?

And as I pointed out, we're not talking about a search warrant on a person, we're talking about whether it's necessary to get a search warrant to look at a picture to determine if it's an illegal image.




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