IP: Ran as "Computer Techs conscripted to fight kiddie Porn," in a local newspaper

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: <bdolan () usit net>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
>  Techs Must Report Child Pornography
> The Associated Press
> Saturday, July 28, 2001; 1:00 p.m. EDT
>
> COLUMBIA, S.C. ­­ Tucked into a new law on education standards for day care
> workers is a requirement that private technicians tell police if they find
> child pornography when servicing computers.
>
> The measure, signed into law by Gov. Jim Hodges last week, expands an
> existing statute requiring photo developers to report film containing images
> of children that appear to be under 18 in sex acts or in a "sexually
> explicit posture."
>
> "Now folks who look at this trash on their computers will be caught," Hodges
> spokesman Morton Brilliant said.
>
> Civil libertarians say conscripting computer technicians into the state's
> anti-porn efforts raises privacy concerns.
>
> "I don't know how in the world you're going to enforce that," said Herb
> Buhl, a lawyer with the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
>
> Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina, which has one of the state's
> largest private-sector computer networks, will comply with the law,
> spokeswoman Donna Thorne said.
>
> But, she added, "I'm not sure its our computer technician's job to be doing
> law enforcement."



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