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google tip led to child porn arrest A CONVICTED sex offender has been charged with possessing child pornography after Google scanned his emails and alerted the authorities. Police in Houston, Texas revealed that it was a tip-off from the internet giant which led to the arrest of 41-year-old John Henry Skillern. All Gmail’s 425million worldwide users have their messages automatically searched for child pornography, but law enforcers have previously not mentioned Google’s involvement in arrests. The company reported Skillern to the US-based National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, which contacted the police, after it said it found a sexually-explicit image of a young girl in his email. When officers raided Skillern’s home they said they found emails on his computer, along with a video on his phone of a girl who came into the restaurant where he worked as a cook. Skillern was already a registered sex offender who was convicted of sexually assaulting an eight-year-old boy in 1994. Civil liberty campaigners have called on Google for more details on their surveillance. Emma Carr of Big Brother Watch said: ‘They must make themselves very clear about what procedures and safeguards are in place to ensure that people are not wrongly criminalised.’ Skillern has also been charged with promoting child pornography and is being held on $200,000 bail. A spokeswoman for Google said it would not comment on individual cases. The web giant has previously spoken about being ‘proactive’ in its work to remove images of child abuse from its search results.
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by dominic yeaTman
United to remember
Belgium’s King Belgium ing Philippe (back) attends a a ceremonyy at a the Cointe Inter-allied Memorial to commemorate the 100th anniversaryy of the outbr outbreak of World War ar I yyesterday. y. Presidentt Michael D Higgins was among 12 he heads of state in attendance at the ceremony in Liege, where some of the first military casualties of the Great War, including Irish soldiers, are buried. The ceremony honoured some 16million people who died between 1914 and 1918. Some 200,000 Irish fought in WW1, with an estimated 50,000 of them losing their lives picture: reuters
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