Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Google admits scanning Gmail for kiddie porn after turning in pedophile


A man in Texas found out the hard way that Google is required by law to scan emails for suspected child abuse after he was arrested. The company had tipped off law enforcement to the presence of child pornography in his Gmail.

John Henry Skillern was arrested for possessing and promoting child pornography on Thursday after Google generated a cyber-tip and sent it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). 

The internet mega-company detected explicit images of a young girl in an email he was sending to a friend, police said .... http://rt.com/usa/