“Houston police have arrested a registered sex offender after Google tipped them off to illegal photos of children in his Gmail account,” Engadget reported .

Google has long used automatic image scanning to fight online child exploitation, but it’s now clear that this monitoring applies to email, too.

The bust is notable in that there were no public clues to the offender’s activity, such as a website; besides the people he contacted, only Google would have known what he was doing online. It was not known until now if Google checks users’ Gmail images. However this news has not surprised anyone: the user agreement now states that Google analyzes the contents of the mailbox, not only for the selection of content, but also for safety reasons.

Source: газета.ru