Microsoft's online safety officer sued the company as continuing to see homicide and child pornography and becoming PTSD

BySoldatnytt

A man who continues to monitor children for child pornography or grotesque contentAlthough there was a story about that, former employees are suing Microsoft because they were doing similar work as PTSD.

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Mr. Henry Soto and Greg Brauert, who belonged to the online safety team, who filed an appeal.

Mr. Soto is an early member from 2008 when the team was formed, but the assignment was unwilling to say. The team shared information on criminal activity with the police and Mr. Soto was checking photos and videos as a job. It is said that the content was "terribly cruel acts and murders, sexual violence not to be overstated, images of people who died, entertaining people who were slightly stupid worldwide".

Mr. Soto develops a sleep disorder while doing picture / photograph check as everyday. Furthermore, after seeing the "unintelligable" picture that a girl was abused and ultimately murdered, it came to be attacked by a nightmare and illusion.

ByGerónimo Lagos Agüero

Mr. Soto asked for a change to another department after that and was accepted. However, the person who moved to the office is close to the online safety team, and the team's colleague came to ask Mr. Soto to talk to him and eventually was stimulated by trauma, so he finally got off work.

Mr. Braueret also took charge of checking thousands of child pornography (child abuse record), adult pornography of terrible content in the same way, as well as to experience nightmare and intrusion became. When appealing this situation to his boss, Mr. Brauert took off because he was judged to be in short supply and was able to impose a "video game as a rest" in the work evaluation.

Both of them received a diagnosis of PTSD from a doctor and said that this case was reached.

According to Microsoft, this department is conducting confirmation work to detect and classify the user that services do not share illegal images and images on the service, as soon as confirmation is done It deleted, reported to the Center for Missing / Exploited Children, and closed accounts that owned the contents.

However, although Microsoft insists that it is setting the necessary health program for the "trained employee" who is doing work, Mr. Soto and Mr. Blauert have refuted that the health program was not implemented I will.