G-Mail detects child porn, arrest is made
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 08/04/2014 09:51 AM
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John Henry Skillern, a 41-year-old Houston man, was arrested when a scan of his Google email uncovered child pornography.
He was sending explicit images of a young girl when the search giant intercepted them and handed them over to local police. The police acquired a search warrant and found more child porn stored on Skillern's mobile phone and tablet. He has been charged with one count of Child porn and is being held on $200,000 bond.
Google identifies images by a process known as hashing. It breaks a picture down into specific components that can be identified regardless of the image's file type or resolution.
Google pledged to further crack down on access to child porn via its search engine. "In the last three months [we] put more than 200 people to work developing new, state-of-the-art technology to tackle the problem," Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt wrote.
He was sending explicit images of a young girl when the search giant intercepted them and handed them over to local police. The police acquired a search warrant and found more child porn stored on Skillern's mobile phone and tablet. He has been charged with one count of Child porn and is being held on $200,000 bond.
Google identifies images by a process known as hashing. It breaks a picture down into specific components that can be identified regardless of the image's file type or resolution.
Google pledged to further crack down on access to child porn via its search engine. "In the last three months [we] put more than 200 people to work developing new, state-of-the-art technology to tackle the problem," Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt wrote.
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