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Originally posted by XYCash
What I want to know is if you would ever allow Sniffy to be used by the feds for purposes other than hunting down CP such as images which may be perceived as being obscene?
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joe,
Lee and I have stated many times, what our purpose and goals are. You said that google says they don't police webmasters.
we say we don't police webmasters.
Does google state anywhere that they won't do anything with the data, like hand it over to the FBI if they forced to do so?
no.
Can we say we won't give the data to the FBI.
Yes.
But, if we, or google, or any other database gets a subponea from them, we have no choice.
Google's API opens up their database to allow keyword analysis. FBI could already be using it, but you seem satisified by google's statement that they "don't police webmasters".
of course they don;t, it's not their job as a private company, it's the FBIs job.
Could our data be used against webmasters? i don't see how since we are focused on image data. Google is in a much better position as a datasource to be used. They index the text, the links, the meta tags, etc. Their data is much easier to programatically search for whatever suspicious activity the feds are looking for.
we haven't developed an API, and don't intended to have any kind of external connections to our data, yet google has developed such a thing that could potentially be used for exactly the purposes that you are commenting about.
and we know that google does spider adult websites, they have a huge database of data sites. google has the bigger power. sniffy is not the "killer db" that the feds would want. but should they make a determination that they want our data, we can't stop it.
i personally don't feel it's the Fed's business to be sniffing around our data. other than reporting CP leads to ASACP.
-dj