[ NNSquad ] Verizon running pattern match hashes against users' stored data

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Verizon running pattern match hashes against users' stored data

http://j.mp/13ExszE  (ars technica)

    Verizon officials would not go into the particulars of how it scans
    customers' content. "All we do is follow the law," said Verizon
    spokesperson Linda Laughlin. But they acknowledged that the company
    uses a database of mathematical fingerprints of known images of
    children generated by the National Center for Missing and Exploited
    Children, using a technology called PhotoDNA, which was donated by
    Microsoft just over a year ago.

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This confirms my speculation of several days ago regarding this case.
The broader question of course, is how such technology might be
silently applied by services for other classes of users' stored data.

--Lauren--
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