Child porn stopped - why the fuss?

[BrilloPad]

BBC News - Google 'reveals user' over Gmail child abuse images

Why would anyone complain about that?

[SimonMac]

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...ber-911-a.html

[OwlHoot]

BBC News - Google 'reveals user' over Gmail child abuse images

Why would anyone complain about that?

Suppose someone wanted to stitch you up, and anonymously sent you some child abuse images which ended up, unknown to you, in your spam folder.

How would you prove it wasn't you who had sent them to yourself?

[SueEllen]

It's not called "child porn" it's called "child abuse images" or "paedophilic images".

Porn is something that involves consenting adults.

[BrilloPad]

Suppose someone wanted to stitch you up, and anonymously sent you some child abuse images which ended up, unknown to you, in your spam folder.

How would you prove it wasn't you who had sent them to yourself?

Stop it - you are giving admin ideas.

[SueEllen]

Suppose someone wanted to stitch you up, and anonymously sent you some child abuse images which ended up, unknown to you, in your spam folder.

How would you prove it wasn't you who had sent them to yourself?

Spam folders automatically delete the contents within 30 days.

People are probably being sent links to as well as explicit imagery anyway.

[BrilloPad]

It's not called "child porn" it's called "child abuse images" or "paedophilic images".

Porn is something that involves consenting adults.

Apologies - I am quite Niave in this area. I still believe anyone found guilty should be chemically castrated.

[xoggoth]

Suppose someone wanted to stitch you up, and anonymously sent you some child abuse images which ended up, unknown to you, in your spam folder.

They'd have to fake the headers in some way to appear to be from an account of yours wouldn't they?

I sometimes wonder (given there are at least 3 other xoggoths out there) how easy it would be to get blamed for some libel, hate speech etc that somebody else made. In a forum post is there any info to say who posted it other than IP address?

[darmstadt]

Spam folders automatically delete the contents within 30 days.

People are probably being sent links to as well as explicit imagery anyway.

I think that depends on what e-mail client you're using and how you've configured it. For example my Thunderbird collates e-mail from not only my own e-mail account but also Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail yet there are mails in the spam folder that are over 2 years old. Logging on to Gmail does in fact show that the spam folder gets automatically emptied after 30 days but the Trash folder doesn't

[VectraMan]

This guy was sending images. It'd be a bit unfair (and easy to defend) if they arrested you for spam you were sent.

But it does highlight that Google read your emails. I think most people if asked would say they'd prefer their email was kept private whether or not they had a particular thing they wanted to hide.