Porn software can detect sex-addicted employees

With Ireland ranking top of the list for searches of the word ‘porn’ on Google, the country’s employers will be interested in newly-developed porn-detecting software.
Publication date: 2008-11-27

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Google responds to purported Gmail vulnerability

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