I saw this last month but didn’t get round to blogging it. Showing what can be achieved when big business considers social issues, YouTube software has been adapted to help analysts from the US National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) find child pornography. In turn, this will allow solutions to be developed to make it harder to traffic indecent images and exploit children. After recent bad publicity over human rights issues, this may indicate parent company Google’s return to its “do no evil” corporate motto.

Full article on the BBC News website, here.

Posted Sunday, May 11th, 2008 @ 5:37 am
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