Microsoft helps spot child pornography on the Internet

June 14, 2010

"These photos live on the Internet forever and every time they are shared or viewed, the children in them are re-victimized. It’s not enough to stop the perpetrators. The real point is getting these images off the Internet.”

Brad Smith, Microsoft senior vice president and general counsel, speaking about a technology called PhotoDNA, that finds hidden copies of child pornography on the Internet.