Google scans of man's emails lead to child porn swoop
The internet giant told a child protection agency that John Skillern had sent sick pictures using a Gmail account
A man has been arrested on suspicion of sharing child porn after Google found illegal images in his emails.
The internet giant told a child protection agency that US subscriber John Skillern, 41, had sent sick pictures using a Gmail account.
Police in Houston, Texas, arrested the convicted child molester and allegedly found child porn on two devices.
Det David Nettles said: “I can’t see that photo, but Google can.”
Google scans its 400 million Gmail accounts so it can provide pop-up ads.
It is thought to be the first time the firm has admitted giving police private email data leading to an arrest.
Google said it had technology to search for “known images of child sex abuse”.
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