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[FYI] New filter scours servers for illicit content
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- Subject: [FYI] New filter scours servers for illicit content
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- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:30:04 +0200
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New filter scours servers for illicit content
By Rachel Konrad
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
October 24, 2000, 4:00 a.m. PT
So long, smut.
A Paris-based technology company Tuesday will unveil a filter that
sends an email alert to customers whenever it finds a lewd picture or
photo on a Web site. ImageFilter, the newest product from Internet
infrastructure provider LookThatUp, is an "image recognition engine"
that breaks down photos or drawings into their unique visual
attributes.
ImageFilter is the latest in a growing repertoire of products
targeted at e-commerce companies that unwittingly host pornographic
images, from Web hosting businesses to online auction houses. It's
virtually impossible for such companies to monitor hundreds of
thousands of pages created by disparate customers around the world.
But government agencies, attorneys and consumer groups are
increasingly shifting the burden of cleaning up the smut from the
individual offenders to the businesses that enable them to operate.
The U.S. market for Internet filtering software will be $1.5 billion
in 2004, according to marketing consulting company Frost & Sullivan.
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