Man arrested after Microsoft finds child porn on OneDrive account

Earlier this week, we reported that Google had reported an individual to the police after discovering a large quantity of child abuse images on his Gmail account. After the police obtained a search warrant, they found a considerable stash of similar content on his home computer, and the person was arrested.

While the capture of such an individual is certainly cause for celebration, some have raised concerns about tech companies like Google intruding on the privacy of users, leading the company to defend its actions, clarifying that its inbox scanning is specifically tuned to identify content that may be related to child abuse.

But Google isn't the only company to use methods such as these. Details have now emerged of Microsoft also having identified someone that was sharing child abuse images in recent days, as BBC News reports. Microsoft found an image involving a "young girl" that had allegedly been saved to a OneDrive account belonging to a man in his twenties from Pennsylvania. The man was later discovered to be trying to send two illegal images from a Microsoft live.com email address.