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Google Pressured To Police Stolen Webcam Videos On YouTube
An anonymous reader writes: A new report from Digital Citizens Alliance has called on Google to do a better job of making sure illicit webcam footage doesn't stick around on YouTube. Over the past several years, hackers have found profit in hijacking webcams and using the footage they capture to embarrass or extort money from their victims. This footage is frequently posted to YouTube, sometimes even as livestreams. DCA says these videos collectively have millions of views on YouTube, and that Google is part of the reason hackers can profit from it. They add that Google has not yet responded to their request.
I have a little inconspicuous black piece of electrical tape over my webcam. I take it off whenever I need to video conference, which is not very often. I just don't get why they don't put a small manual shutter over the webcam on laptops. I guess grandma wouldn't figure out how to operate it or something.
Has your been stolen and posted to YouTube?
Fill out this nice form and they will take it down.
https://support.google.com/you...
Nothing to see here; move along.
Obviously no one can until a complaint is filed.
The problem, as anyone who has had a problem with Google and needed to talk to a human knows, is that Google doesn't have a lot of staff to deal with this kind of thing. They try to have an algorithm detect and deal with abuses, but they're often wrong or inadequate which leaves regular people without a lot of options.
DCA is an MPAA funded attack dog it regularly sics on Google. Techdirt has a number of articles where the DCA is involved in a some state AG's cases driven by the MPAA. https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?company=digital+citizens+alliance
DCA says these videos collectively have millions of views on YouTube, and that Google is part of the reason hackers can profit from it.
I would l like to see the utility companies providing the electricity held accountable.
the DCA is nothing but a shill organization made to attack Google and other big new media companies on behalf of Old Media. This is yet another attack with no solution offered, in order to make Google look bad.
Some people want one master switch, some people want multiple switches and some people want one switch with multiple settings, huh? I've got a solution to all this.
Just have it be software-controlled, and then people can choose whether to use "basic" or "advanced" GUI. Everyone wins, and it's mechanically simpler, too!
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
It's worse than that. How do you prove you own copyright on the stolen footage and thus the right to ask for it to be removed?
In the case of stolen photos, some people have had to send nudes to the copyright office. That's clearly unacceptable.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
The problem, as anyone who has had a problem with Google and needed to talk to a human knows, is that Google doesn't have a lot of staff to deal with this kind of thing. They try to have an algorithm detect and deal with abuses, but they're often wrong or inadequate which leaves regular people without a lot of options.
All of that is probably an advantage in DCA's eyes. They see Youtube's "accusation == guilty until proven innocent (plus the kafkaesque nightmare of trying to file an appeal with the automated scripts/machines)" copyright reporting system, and they want Google to implement something similar in their favor.
And they have a good chance of getting it, too, because Google will just want to make them to go away.
I have a problem with Google's new tendency to use UK-centric names for their new photo captcha. They show me photos of burgers and fries, trucks, planes, etc. But they call french fries "chips", airplanes "aeroplanes" and trucks "lorries" or something. It's like the people in charge over there don't understand that on the Internet you must use common, world-wide english, not a dialect specific to a tiny part of the planet.
British English is the standard throughout the world, both in the Anglosphere, and in countries where English is taught as a second language. English did come from England, you know...
Similar to the upcoming US election results
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http://www.youtube.com/yt/policyandsafety/communityguidelines.html
Nudity or sexual content YouTube is not for pornography or sexually explicit content. If this describes your video, even if it's a video of yourself, don't post it on YouTube. Also, be advised that we work closely with law enforcement and we report child exploitation. Learn more"
End Quote
seems to be pretty clear to me
Jack of all trades,master of none
It looks like someone can help you.
https://www.google.com/search?...
http://www.youtube.com/yt/poli...
.Seems to be pretty clear to me Google has a very clear TOS of what is and what isnt allowed
Jack of all trades,master of none
Either you're using a VPN, or your IP address was recently reassigned from a block previously used by an ISP in the UK. You can try reporting the problem here, but as with most Google contact forms, it's a black hole and nobody will ever look at the report. Your best bet is to wait it out.
And how the heck is YouTube supposed to know what is 'illicit' and not?
So, lets force YouTube to guess?
Or, perhaps lets force any site to take down data because someone, somewhere, says it is?
Umm, there's elections coming up and many campaign coffers to fill. Apparently TPTB feel Google has not yet done enough towards that end.
What? You thought this was anything else?
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Really, don't upload your nudes to the 'cloud'. This should be common sense. I have no sympathy for the 'victims' of 'fappenings.' They victimized themselves with their own stupidity.
Well, the important thing is that you've managed to find a way to feel superior to them.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
I spent several years in France. People there were saying french fries
Of course they would say that. You wouldn't serve American fries in France, n'est-ce pas?
Ezekiel 23:20
True but Canadians also still use some British spelling though that is much less these days than it used to be. Honour was such an example - Canadians spelled it with the U and we dolts down here spelled it with four Qs and a G.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
I am reasonably certain that pictures of my penis are online. I have shared it, I used to drink - a lot, with many people. I am kind of honored if it is still online somewhere. It means that someone liked it well enough to retain a copy and share it with other people. He's not the biggest but he sure is cute.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Cams and devices with cams should come with physical switches that cut power to the device and its mic.
Protip: camera can be disabled with a small amount of electrical tape right over the lens. Doesn't work so well for the mic, but it's a pretty much unhackable solution to prevent e-peeping toms...and today's voyeurs don't usually have interest in non-video feeds.
Here's an interesting idea, though...think there'd be a market for camera cases with a flip-up camera shield, front and back? I would definitely be interested...would be tricky to design in some phones so it doesn't foul the proximity sensors, and 'auto-brightness' settings would be useless, but still...
"I love animals! Some are cute, others are tasty, what's not to like?" - Betsy Schroeder, Jeopardy contestant
And nobody definitely has any sympathy for you either. But smart people will still defend your rights because an attack against your rights is an attack against everyone's rights, no matter how much you might "deserve" it.
No, they didn't. Their stupidity made it easy to victimize them. You aren't any less guilty just because your victim is weak and helpless.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
>and that freely-usable, indexed video hosting is part of the reason hackers can profit from it.
Yeah, no, that's a thing we want to keep. Find a less nuclear, less lazy solution, or accept it as one of the inconvenient-yet-inescapable truths: Distribution exists.
I sympathize when legislation wants to (try and) steer a technology, but sometimes it's like they think they can uninvent it. And you could argue that stopped being a thing sometime around, what, the invention of books?
I have problems with American English leaving out words in sentences.
Example, There is a new cpu and interface being introduced. "This is great!" What is the word that belongs between "This" and "is great!"
Americans say, "There are three cards to choose from". Britishers and good writers say "There are three cards from which to choose. Or Choose from the three cards.
There are a lot more examples that I can find to illustrate my point.
Leslie Satenstein Montreal Quebec Canada