When it comes to tools that helps scan for illegal images such as child pornography, Microsoft has such a tool called PhotoDNA. This tool has been around for a few years ago, but given that a lot of photos are being stored in the cloud these days, Microsoft has decided to step up their game by launching PhotoDNA for the cloud.

Similar to the non-cloud version of PhotoDNA, the software will be able to help scan, identify, and remove illegal photos uploaded online in a bid to fight against child pornography. According to Microsoft, it seems that out of the 1.8 billion images that are uploaded to the cloud on a daily basis, a staggering 720,000 are of the illegal variety.

According to Courtney Gregoire, a senior attorney at Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, “Finding these known child sex abuse images in that huge universe is like finding a needle in a haystack. We needed an easier, more scalable way to identify and detect these worst of the worst images … and that’s how the concept for PhotoDNA in the cloud was born.”

With PhotoDNA Cloud Service, it will help smaller companies and organizations with less resources to help ensure that their services are kept free of such images which would no doubt cause a reputation hit if it was discovered that they hosted such images, even if it was not uploaded by them.

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