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Google helped US police arrest a man in Houston, after the internet giant tipped the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) off about explicit images of a child in his email account, Business Insider reports. The man, who was formerly convicted of sexually assaulting a child 20 years ago, was caught after police were alerted to the fact that he had emailed images to a friend. Google hasn’t commented on the report, but police told TV news station KHOU Channel 11 that they weren’t given access to the images in question, but did use them to issue an arrest warrant that subsequently found further images for…

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