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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