SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police apologized on Thursday after inadvertently sending Internet images of child pornography to 1,800 schools while trying to warn principals about children at risk of abuse.
The mistake came during a police crackdown on child pornography...
Police assistant commissioner Graeme Morgan...said the images of three young girls had been sent to the state's Department of Education. The photographs sent by police and found during the arrest of a man suspected of possessing child pornography, had been cropped to show only the girls' faces.
However, inadequate software had been used in the cropping process and the full images remained embedded in some files, which were later opened by a handful of recipients, he said.
~Well it's one way for the police to insure kiddie porn investigations continue. Should we assume they'll be needing a complete new computer system to make sure accidents like this never happen again?
Posted by Cieciel at November 27, 2004 01:25 AM