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Child Abusers Run Rampant as Tech Companies Look the Other Way
The New York Times ^ | November 9, 2019 | Michael H Keller

Posted on 11/09/2019 5:35:00 PM PST by KingofZion

The two sisters live in fear of being recognized. One grew out her bangs and took to wearing hoodies. The other dyed her hair black. Both avoid looking the way they did as children.

Ten years ago, their father did the unthinkable: He posted explicit photos and videos on the internet of them, just 7 and 11 at the time. Many captured violent assaults in their Midwestern home, including him and another man drugging and raping the 7-year-old.

The men are now in prison, but in a cruel consequence of the digital era, their crimes are finding new audiences. The two sisters are among the first generation of child sexual abuse victims whose anguish has been preserved on the internet, seemingly forever.

This year alone, photos and videos of the sisters were found in over 130 child sexual abuse investigations involving mobile phones, computers and cloud storage accounts.

The digital trail of abuse — often stored on Google Drive, Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive — haunts the sisters relentlessly, they say, as does the fear of a predator recognizing them from the images.

*** The companies have the technical tools to stop the recirculation of abuse imagery by matching newly detected images against databases of the material. Yet the industry does not take full advantage of the tools.

Amazon, whose cloud storage services handle millions of uploads and downloads every second, does not even look for the imagery. Apple does not scan its cloud storage, according to federal authorities, and encrypts its messaging app, making detection virtually impossible. Dropbox, Google and Microsoft’s consumer products scan for illegal images, but only when someone shares them, not when they are uploaded.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bing; homosexualagenda; pedogate; pedophile; pedophilia; photodna
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Why do companies protect child molesters?
1 posted on 11/09/2019 5:35:00 PM PST by KingofZion
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“Amazon, whose cloud storage services handle millions of uploads and downloads every second,..”

Perhaps you could share with us the software that could perform this task.

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2 posted on 11/09/2019 5:37:12 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: KingofZion

Maybe their CEOs are also involved?


3 posted on 11/09/2019 5:38:24 PM PST by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: KingofZion
Google "The Finders" "FBI"

The swamp is deep.

4 posted on 11/09/2019 5:41:07 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Lurker
Google "The Finders" "FBI"

The swamp is deep.

5 posted on 11/09/2019 5:41:19 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Jane Austen
Google "The Finders" "FBI"

The swamp is deep.

6 posted on 11/09/2019 5:41:31 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: KingofZion

I always figured that cloud storage or similar was open to microsoft or whoever ran it.


7 posted on 11/09/2019 5:42:05 PM PST by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all. And send her back!)
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To: KingofZion

Because Democrats are evil.


8 posted on 11/09/2019 5:42:07 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: KingofZion

What they seem to be advocating here is Amazon, Google, and Microsoft should scan every file that is stored in their cloud storage. That may seem to be an easy thing to say yes to when the purpose is detecting child pornography, but once the precedent is set, what else will they routinely scan for and report?


9 posted on 11/09/2019 5:52:02 PM PST by CaptainMorgantown
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To: KingofZion
Why do companies protect child molesters?

This guy would know but he’s long gone


10 posted on 11/09/2019 5:52:27 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: KingofZion
"They trusted me. The dumb f*cks" -- Mark Zuckerberg
11 posted on 11/09/2019 5:56:28 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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No, thank you I’m not one of those weak minded people who automatically roll over to hand over even more power to the government and megacorps to invade everyone’s privacy and trample all over everybody’s rights especially when they break open the old ‘think of the children’ chestnut. With Epstein et al running around do you really think thats the reason they want all this power?


12 posted on 11/09/2019 6:06:58 PM PST by jarwulf
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This is a call for total Internet censorship. Protecting the abused is just a excuse. There is over one million terabytes of data on line. There is no way to filter all of it.
13 posted on 11/09/2019 6:20:23 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: CaptainMorgantown

It should not be difficult to find child porn with their ultra-sophisticated stuff. They are already scanning for politically incorrect users.


14 posted on 11/09/2019 6:31:21 PM PST by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: KingofZion

Do you want your personal files scanned?


15 posted on 11/09/2019 6:54:28 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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Not your personal files.


16 posted on 11/09/2019 6:56:37 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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“The men are now in prison...” What?!! Those men should be DEAD! What kind of a country would allow these devils to continue to live? To be fed, housed, cooled, and warmed, etc? Where are the men of America? What sorry and pathetic excuse for manhood would permit this to continue? This outrage makes the whole society enablers with them in their crimes! And to rape your own 7 year old daughter,,and film it?! There is no other righteous disposition toward evil but direct confrontation of it and its total and final destruction. Repent America! “Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.” - Deut. 20


17 posted on 11/09/2019 7:05:51 PM PST by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees)
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18 posted on 11/09/2019 7:25:05 PM PST by bitt ((Epstein didn't kill himself!))
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PING

Do a search on:

"The Finders" "FBI"

The swamp is deep.

19 posted on 11/09/2019 7:47:09 PM PST by LucyT
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To: Veto!
It should not be difficult to find child porn with their ultra-sophisticated stuff.

And if they don't like you, it will be just as easy for them to place child porn in your cloud files.

20 posted on 11/09/2019 8:11:23 PM PST by AZLiberty (218 House seats or bust! Bust. But the Dems will be busted for election fraud.)
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