This is very good news! Google has many tools and much creativity that it is directing at money-making ventures, and rightly so.
However, it is also a leader in its field and, as such, needs to be a leader in these areas as well.
It is not enough to talk about doing good!
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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The fight against child pornography is getting an assist from technology designed by Google to help identify copyright-protected clips on its YouTube video-sharing site.
Four Google employees used their "20 per cent time" - during which the company encourages them to pursue unofficial, out-of-the-box projects - to customize the copyright software for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's program for identifying children in sexually explicit photos and video.
Software already has been used to match known images, but when new ones are submitted by law enforcement and service providers, analysts generally make identifications manually, often based on recollections. The center has recently employed facial-recognition technology to make those IDs easier, but with limited success.
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