Google scans your Gmail inbox for child porn to help catch criminals, but don't worry about loss of privacy (yet)
EXTREMETECH | AUGUST 5, 2014
Last week, a man in Texas was arrested by the police for sending child porn to a friend email. This isn't something we'd usually report on, except in...
Google employs and automated system that checks the cryptographic hash (think of it as a digital fingerprint) of every attachment that traverses its servers. Exact technical details of Google's automated system aren't known, but it almost certainly works in the same way as Dropbox's automated copyright/piracy prevention system.
www.extremetech.com/computing/187521-google-scans-your-gmail-inbox-for-child-porn-to-help-catch-criminals-but-dont-worry-about-loss-of-privacy-yet
Google employs and automated system that checks the cryptographic hash (think of it as a digital fingerprint) of every attachment that traverses its servers. Exact technical details of Google's automated system aren't known, but it almost certainly works in the same way as Dropbox's automated copyright/piracy prevention system.
www.extremetech.com/computing/187521-google-scans-your-gmail-inbox-for-child-porn-to-help-catch-criminals-but-dont-worry-about-loss-of-privacy-yet
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