Google’s Role In Woodland Child Pornography Arrest Raises Privacy Concerns

Re:Google’s Role In Woodland Child Pornography Arrest Raises... by sigzero on Sunday November 24, 2013 @01:33PM (#6790494)

The Picasa policy spells out that they don't allow those kinds of things. I would assume one way they would check would be some kind of algorithm. I see "no evil" here on Google's part.

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Re:Google’s Role In Woodland Child Pornography Arrest Raises... by venomsnake on Sunday November 24, 2013 @02:13PM (#6790642)

Yeah. But a companion question should also be - if they use a potent technology for something i approve of (and we all approve of that uses) can it be (ab)used for something we dislike.

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Re:Google’s Role In Woodland Child Pornography Arrest Raises... by Karunamon on Sunday November 24, 2013 @02:38PM (#6790761)

Sure, that's only reasonable. But you're at that point only one step away from a slippery slope argument. (How meta..)

Problem is it's not always a valid question given the context. Automagically scanning images with an algorithm to find known sexual abuse pictures is in a completely different world than scanning images with an algorithm to find copyrighted content, for instance.

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Re:Google’s Role In Woodland Child Pornography Arrest Raises... by greenyoda on Sunday November 24, 2013 @02:59PM (#6790858)

I think this is a crucial point. To make it more concrete:

In the U.S., having a video of Osama bin Laden congratulating the 9/11 terrorists might be grounds for suspicion.

In China, having a picture of a guy standing in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square is highly frowned upon.

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