Sex Offender Google'd and Arrested

Google says it has zero problem scanning emails for child porn. This guy found out.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-spotted-explicit-images-child-160034446.html

 

Glad they got this guy and he deserves whatever he gets, but the big takeaway on this is that Google is reading your email.

 

Eh. You just have to live with this stuff. Privacy is a relatively recent idea in social history, and technology has made it pretty much dead.

 

I wonder how much you could make creating an email service that guarantees total privacy.

 

Maybe it'll send the criminals back to sending things in brown paper bags.

 

Damn! So you're saying all those naked pictures of my buddy's ex-gf are being scoped out by Google and the NSA?

Lucky guys!

 

You can't make that guarantee. The government could and would come in and take care of that. Look at, say, Silk Road.

 

The weakest link in a connection is at the ends; not in the middle.

 

Big takeaway? It's been going on for years.

 

Obviously, they've cooperated with authorities before, but this is the first I've heard of Google proactively reading someone's email and getting them arrested. If this is some sort of widely known role Google has taken upon itself as a private law enforcement agency, then I missed out on it.

 

Don't wanna get arrested? Don't download fucking child pornography.

Howzat for a Starman answer?

 

I was responding to "Google is reading your email," which deserves a "Duh" response.

The big takeaway is that Google did this without a police inquiry or a warrant, as your second post clarified.