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I don't think Microsoft will be using that argument anytime in the near future, the public backlash would be huge and if they were knowingly indexing it they wo
by vivekd 8y ago
I don't think Microsoft will be using that argument anytime in the near future, the public backlash would be huge and if they were knowingly indexing it they would still be subject to legal liability - heck even if they were unknowingly indexing it they could be liable for negligence if due care wasn't taken to prevent these kinds of images from being circulated.
I think Microsoft would argue that there is no real way to prevent these images from being indexed considering that most indexing is automated and it's hard to train their systems to recognize offending images and their human employees can't possibly look through all the images to prevent child porn from being posted.
- dleslie 8y agoExcept they claim to be experts in the field of identifying Child Pornography. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna
- the_duke 8y agoThat's a managed database of KNOWN material though. Very different from categorizing random web content.
- RIMR 8y agoThat's why Google hires people to curate their image database and flag illegal images, so that they can detect them automatically in the future. It looks like Microsoft wasn't doing anything at all to stop new child porn. The fact that their recommendation engine pushes you further in the direction of pedophilia is proof enough that they weren't actively trying to avoid this kind of thing.
- hawaiianbrah 8y agoPretty sure Microsoft does the same. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/11/microsoft-employees-child-abuse-lawsuit-ptsd https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/11/microsoft...