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Gmail spots child porn, resulting in arrest [Updated]
Google publicly promised last year to crack down on online child pornography.
by David Kravets - Aug 4 2014, 3:30pm PDT
Defendant John Skillern.
Webster Police
A 41-year-old Houston man was arrested on suspicion of child pornography
charges in an investigation founded on a tip that Google sent to the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
"They got a tip, basically Gmail," detective David Nettles of the Houston
Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force told a local news
broadcast last week.
The defendant, John Skillern, was being held on $200,000 bond and is a
registered sex offender connected to a 20-year-old sexual assault on a young
boy.
Google publicly promised last year to help crack down on online child
pornography. Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, said in November
2013 that Google "put more than 200 people to work developing new, state-of-
the-art technology to tackle the problem."
Schmidt said that while Google algorithms are not "perfect," they had
removed child porn results from more than 100,000 search queries. When
objectionable material is found, engineers assign the image or video a
digital fingerprint that can prevent it from re-appearing in results and can
make it simple for automated systems to spot.
In an editorial in the Daily Mail last year, Schmidt said that this work
went further than search.
"That's why internet companies like Google and Microsoft have been working
with law enforcement for years to stop paedophiles sharing illegal pictures
on the Web," he wrote. "We actively remove child sexual abuse imagery from
our services and immediately report abuse to the authorities. This evidence
is regularly used to prosecute and convict criminals."
Gmail is the world's biggest e-mail service with more than 450 global
million users. It is in the midst of a privacy flap over the search engine
automatically scanning Gmail messages for a variety of reasons, including
the delivery of ads. In an ongoing US federal lawsuit, Google is accused of
breaching federal and state privacy laws, including wiretapping statutes,
through this monitoring.
Child pornography enjoys no First Amendment protections.
Google, in a statement, said it was following the law, which requires ISPs
to out those moving child porn to the National Center for Exploited Children:
Sadly all Internet companies have to deal with child sexual abuse. It’s
why Google actively removes illegal imagery from our services—including
search and Gmail— and immediately reports abuse to NCMEC. This evidence is
regularly used to convict criminals. Each child sexual abuse image is given
a unique digital fingerprint which enables our systems to identify those
pictures, including in Gmail. It is important to remember that we only use
this technology to identify child sexual abuse imagery, not other email
content that could be associated with criminal activity (for example using
email to plot a burglary).
However, the law does not require ISPs to scrape electronic messages for
images of child porn, as Google does.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children declined to
immediately say how may tips it has gotten from ISPs regarding smut found in
e-mail:
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children operates the
CyberTipline, which serves as the nation’s centralized reporting system for
suspected child sexual exploitation. These reports are made by both the
public and Electronic Service Providers (ESPs). ESPs are required by law to
report suspected child pornography to law enforcement via the CyberTipline.
(18 U.S.C. §2258A). NCMEC makes all CyberTipline reports available to
appropriate law-enforcement agencies for review and possible investigation.
Google publicly promised last year to crack down on online child pornography.
by David Kravets - Aug 4 2014, 3:30pm PDT
Defendant John Skillern.
Webster Police
A 41-year-old Houston man was arrested on suspicion of child pornography
charges in an investigation founded on a tip that Google sent to the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
"They got a tip, basically Gmail," detective David Nettles of the Houston
Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force told a local news
broadcast last week.
The defendant, John Skillern, was being held on $200,000 bond and is a
registered sex offender connected to a 20-year-old sexual assault on a young
boy.
Google publicly promised last year to help crack down on online child
pornography. Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, said in November
2013 that Google "put more than 200 people to work developing new, state-of-
the-art technology to tackle the problem."
Schmidt said that while Google algorithms are not "perfect," they had
removed child porn results from more than 100,000 search queries. When
objectionable material is found, engineers assign the image or video a
digital fingerprint that can prevent it from re-appearing in results and can
make it simple for automated systems to spot.
In an editorial in the Daily Mail last year, Schmidt said that this work
went further than search.
"That's why internet companies like Google and Microsoft have been working
with law enforcement for years to stop paedophiles sharing illegal pictures
on the Web," he wrote. "We actively remove child sexual abuse imagery from
our services and immediately report abuse to the authorities. This evidence
is regularly used to prosecute and convict criminals."
Gmail is the world's biggest e-mail service with more than 450 global
million users. It is in the midst of a privacy flap over the search engine
automatically scanning Gmail messages for a variety of reasons, including
the delivery of ads. In an ongoing US federal lawsuit, Google is accused of
breaching federal and state privacy laws, including wiretapping statutes,
through this monitoring.
Child pornography enjoys no First Amendment protections.
Google, in a statement, said it was following the law, which requires ISPs
to out those moving child porn to the National Center for Exploited Children:
Sadly all Internet companies have to deal with child sexual abuse. It’s
why Google actively removes illegal imagery from our services—including
search and Gmail— and immediately reports abuse to NCMEC. This evidence is
regularly used to convict criminals. Each child sexual abuse image is given
a unique digital fingerprint which enables our systems to identify those
pictures, including in Gmail. It is important to remember that we only use
this technology to identify child sexual abuse imagery, not other email
content that could be associated with criminal activity (for example using
email to plot a burglary).
However, the law does not require ISPs to scrape electronic messages for
images of child porn, as Google does.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children declined to
immediately say how may tips it has gotten from ISPs regarding smut found in
e-mail:
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children operates the
CyberTipline, which serves as the nation’s centralized reporting system for
suspected child sexual exploitation. These reports are made by both the
public and Electronic Service Providers (ESPs). ESPs are required by law to
report suspected child pornography to law enforcement via the CyberTipline.
(18 U.S.C. §2258A). NCMEC makes all CyberTipline reports available to
appropriate law-enforcement agencies for review and possible investigation.
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