The New York Times reports a U.S. parent's Google account was suspended after they photographed infections in the private areas of their child for their health care provider to assess. Google's artificial intelligence system for detecting child sexual abuse imagery is used to track down and prevent sharing of such images, but accidental cases as this may be more common, Electronic Frontier Foundation technologist Jon Callas said. Last year, Google filed more than 600,000 reports of child abuse material, which led to the disabling of more than 270,000 users’ accounts.
24 Aug. 2022
Google child abuse image detecting tool reports parents sending medical photos
Related stories
Evaluating data privacy across Africa: Toward a unified GDPR-inspired framework
TAKE IT DOWN Act: The next bipartisan US federal privacy, AI law
Privacy review: How to develop an internal data analytics program
Notes from the IAPP Canada: An evolving approach to privacy amid geopolitical shifts
GPS 2025: Sam Altman, Alex Blania discuss Tools for Humanity's biometric technology