Google Silently Uploads Device Content to Drive and Fills Storage Quota
Google Drive auto-syncs photos, messages, and phone backups from user devices without explicit per-action consent, consuming the free 15GB quota until documents become inaccessible. Users discover their storage is full not from their own uploads but from background syncs they did not deliberately initiate. The policy conflates consent for cloud access with consent for continuous bulk uploads.
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