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by pstevensza 5902 days ago
The industry sells image analysers hard. I've run ones by M86 Security and IronPort, and couldn't implement them based on the suggested approach, i.e. an automatic email wagging a finger at a suspected infringement. Not only do your employees now feel that they're working for the Ministry of Truth, but I imagine that you may have some problems if you consistently get it wrong and falsely accuse people based on a piece of software.
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Yeah, I'd get pissed off if I got an email every time I accidentally saw a racy picture at work. It happens more often than you think, usually when you're reading about some current event and you read, "Hey, I know someone who this actually happened to. She blogged about it _here_..." and you end up on a blog full of pictures of the blogger dressed up for lolicon or cosplay. I don't want to be auto-badgered by some image recognition program. If anything, badger me for reading non-work-related news while I'm supposed to be working. ... :-O Cntl-w