Google to use YouTube technology to take on child porn

Search engine giant Google has said that they would use the YouTube’s image recognition technology to help fight child porn.

They are collaborating with National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to automate the process of finding out abuse victims from millions of photos.

Google uses their video fingerprinting technology to tackle piracy on YouTube.

The company said that their engineers have worked for a year on implementing this technology to review millions of photos which otherwise required manual review.

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