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The Picasa policy spells out that they don't allow those kinds of things. I would assume one way they would check would be some kind of algorithm. I see "no evi
by sigzero 13y ago
The Picasa policy spells out that they don't allow those kinds of things. I would assume one way they would check would be some kind of algorithm. I see "no evil" here on Google's part.
- venomsnake 13y agoYeah. But a companion question should also be - if they use a potent technology for something i approve of (and we all approve of that uses) can it be (ab)used for something we dislike.
- Karunamon 13y agoSure, that's only reasonable. But you're at that point only one step away from a slippery slope argument. (How meta..) Problem is it's not always a valid question given the context. Automagically scanning images with an algorithm to find known sexual abuse pictures is in a completely different world than scanning images with an algorithm to find copyrighted content, for instance.
- greenyoda 13y agoI think this is a crucial point. To make it more concrete: In the U.S., having a video of Osama bin Laden congratulating the 9/11 terrorists might be grounds for suspicion. In China, having a picture of a guy standing in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square is highly frowned upon.