from SLATE: >Full-Body Scanners Break U.K. Child Porn Laws >As airports in Europe pump up their orders for full-body scanners that might >have helped catch the man who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on >Christmas, experts warn the expensive machines could break child protection >laws in England. Some claim the images captured by the machines are graphic >enough to break the law that bans the creation of indecent images of children. >The government might have to end up exempting those under 18 from passing >through the scanner if it wants to start using the machines as quickly as >possible.<
Full story at http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jan/04/new-scanners-child-porn-laws/print -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
