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You mean like the football coach in Minnesota that had some videos of his kids playing after a bath in his cellphone and got arrested for child porn?

http://news.yahoo.com/ex-minnesota-state-mankato-coach-retur...

I'm not sure if there is a ton of oversight for what Google does, but I agree with your point there needs to some kind of vetting to determine guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

In the case here, the man had quite a history of previous behavior that would make it a pretty clear choice as to what Google needed to do. In the case of the football coach who only had the innocent video of his kids playing, there was some obvious signs that were ignored in the process of steamrolling a mans career, his reputation and his standing in the community where he's lived his whole life.




Isn't what's happening here quite different? They'd be matching against a know list of images.


Yes. Robust hashing wouldn't flag a parent's personal pictures of their young kids at bathtime. We aren't discussing nudity detection algorithms.




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