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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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