Photo added to Google Drive by unknown person then Google flagged it as CSAM and notified police
The first I knew of this was the police knocking on the door with a search warrant to seize devices.
Google had reported an image on my Google Drive as CSAM however this image was no longer on the drive and was not found anywhere on my devices. The police described the image to me and a) sounds like it’s a regular photo of kids at the beach and not CSAM so it was maybe misidentified by Google’s AI and b) I did not put the image their nor delete it. I don’t really use that Google Drive at all it’s basically empty.
Has this happened to anyone else? Or does anyone know HOW this could happen and go so far that I’m maybe facing charges of possession of CSAM when I have no knowledge of that image file!?! If someone else adds a file to my Google Drive do I then ‘posess’ it according to law?!? This is a very scary situation.