GEEKWIRE | AUGUST 6, 2014
A Pennsylvania man has been arrested on child pornography charges after Microsoft tipped off law enforcement that he had uploaded a pair of illicit images to his OneDrive account, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by The Smoking Gun. Microsoft was able to detect the images through the use of PhotoDNA, technology that it developed alongside Dartmouth College, which is designed to make it possible to identify images and tip law enforcement without requiring staff to look at the offending files. The same technology is used by a variety of tech companies, including Facebook and Twitter.
Of course Microsoft and LEOs don't report the false positive rate...
Good thing such an error couldn't ruin your life.
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