Stopped by a pedophile that Gmail will “denounced” – Reuters

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MADRID, 4 Aug. (Portaltic / EP) –

A man has been arrested in Houston, Texas (USA) for crimes of pedophilia . The activities of the accused were known to the authorities through the Google mail service, Gmail, which found sexual images of children.

The mail service Google crawls the content of the messages from its users to know if they are meeting its terms and that you are not spreading content as pedophile material ‘spam’ or ‘malware’ . They do the “robots” from Google, not humans, automatically.

At the time when the content was detected pedophile harboring this account American man 41 years , jumped the Google alert, which reported it to police, reports the BBC . After an investigation, he was arrested and is now charged with possession of child pornography.

The legal representative of Google, David Drummond, said previously that the company helped found the Internet Watch Foundation (Internet Watch Foundation, or IWF), which aims to “proactively identify child abuse on Google images that can remove” in your search engine.