Security News > 2022 > February > Google Drive flags macOS '.DS_Store' files for copyright violation
DS Store' files generated by macOS file systems as a violation of its copyright infringement policy.
DS Store" file on their Google Drive being flagged for violating Google's 'Copyright Infringement' policy.
One plausible assumption we had was, Google relies on checksums to keep track of copyrighted content, and a possible hash-collision between copyrighted files and benign files sharing the same hash can trigger false violations.
Last month, Google Drive users were left baffled on seeing their nearly empty files being erroneously flagged for violating the company's copyright infringement policy.
"With these new notifications, the owner of the item in Google Drive will now receive an email notifying them of the action taken and why, and alerting them of how to request a review of the verdict if they think it is a mistake," Google tells us.
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.