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How Google handles child pornography in Gmail, search |
August 05, 2014
Google’s email-scanning practices are used to fight evil as well as target ads. The company revealed Monday that it's created a digital database of images displaying child sexual abuse, which it compares to images sent via Gmail.
In that case, images of child pornography are matched against its database and reported to law enforcement, Google said late Monday.
Reports by the BBC and KHOU 11 in Houston reported that John Henry Skillern had been arrested for possession of child pornography, based on pornographic images that Skillem allegedly emailed. Google forwarded the images to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who contacted the police.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2461400/how-google-handles-child-pornography-in-gmail-search.html#tk.rss_all
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