A tip-off from Google about the contents of a Gmail account led to the arrest of a 41-year-old Texan for possession of child abuse material, police revealed last week.Police say the search firm tipped off America’s National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about material that it detected in an email sent by John Henry Skillern, a registered sex offender from Houston.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/04/google-child-abuse-ncmec-internet-watch-gmailAlso see:Google Gives Child Pornography Email Evidence to Police
Federal law requires people and companies to report child exploitation when they see it. This includes Google, whose automated eyes tipped law enforcement about a Houston-area man whom the police say was using the company’s Gmail service to email pornographic images of a child.The man, John Henry Skillern, 41, was arrested and charged with promotion and possession of child pornography. According to the police, the arrest was set in motion when Google sent a tip to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The group alerted David Nettles, a detective in Webster, Tex., who works full time for the Houston Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
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