Glad it turned out to be a meme and hardware related issue 🤘

Might be a dumb suggestion but have you tried taking a photo with another device of the issue? Borrow a phone or use a laptop webcam and see if you can get it to appear?

What do you mean? A fine equivalent to 0.001% of their profit is going to cripple them! They might have to fire more staff just to stay afloat. Poor Google.

Gatekeep and track everything. Pay the pennies to the law and keep raking in the profits.