Security News > 2022 > January > Google Drive flags nearly empty files for 'copyright infringement'
Users were left startled as Google Drive's automated detection systems flagged a nearly empty file for copyright infringement.
One of the files in Dolson's Google Drive, 'output04.
A pseudonymous user also shared screenshots of their Google Drive account where files containing just the digit "1"-with or without newline characters, were flagged.
The files containing the digits 173, 174, 186, 266, 285, 302, 336, 451, 500, and 833 were shortly flagged by Google Drive for copyright infringement.
When specifically talking about Google Drive, the report states a "Full-time abuse engineeringteam" was set up by Google for tackling illegal streams served on Google Drive.
BleepingComputer reached out to Google well in advance of publishing with specific questions-such as, whether Google relied on checksums to keep track of copyrighted content and if this behavior rose from a possible hash-collision between copyrighted files and a benign ones sharing the same hash.