Google Scans Gmail to Catch a Sex Offender, But Raises Privacy Concerns

It's common knowledge that Google scans your Gmail content to better target you with ads. But when the company recently turned over a Gmail user to authorities for possessing child pornography, it also shined a spotlight on the question of how much privacy you can have on the service

John Henry Skillern, 41, has been charged with possessing child pornography after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a tip from Google that he had three pornographic images of children in his email. According to KHOU Houston, Skillern was emailing an explicit picture of a young girl when Google picked up on the incident and alerted authorities. Read more...

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