Image screening

[guest7]

After the little kerfuffle of Jule's image in the 'Handlebar' thread in the events forum, I was wondering, how did Photobucket identify the image as being of a naked woman?

The image title didn't have any clues to its content. Do you think photobucket has some sort of search facility that identifies potentially pornographic content (skin tones etc.)?

If so then is this a technology that employers would utilise to screen their employees web and email material?

I know that in a company I worked for they had keywords for email subjects that would flag the mails up for the managers to view. Typical words (allegedly) were CV, interview, job offer, etc. Once I heard this I sent loads of mails with subjects like, 'I love 2 CV s, they're a great car'. Seems a bit childish now though 

GC

[Andy M]

Not sure about photo bucket, but the technology exists.

There is a place just North of here called Menwith Hill. It's a US monitoring station. There are ten storeys underground full of computers monitoring "transmissions" (whatever they might be). You'd hope they'd be doing something usefull like looking for kiddie porn and drugs stuff, but I suspect they spend more effort looking for the words George Bush and Bomb.

Andy

[Steve Lake]

Yeah...it's a well known fact that the cia monitor emails....any sentence containing bomb, bush, terrorist, whitehouse, airforce 1, etc the originators of these emails seem to mysteroiusly dissappe