In Pokemon Go, Lawmakers Fear Unexpected Entrance of the Sexual Predator
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/nyregion/in-pokemon-go-lawmakers-fear-unexpected-entrance-of-the-sexual-predator.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
In New York, those discoveries prompted Mr. Klein, a Democrat
who represents parts of the Bronx and Westchester County, and
Ms. Savino, a Staten Island Democrat, to propose two pieces of
legislation, scheduled to be introduced next week. The first
would prevent moderate or high-risk sex offenders from playing
so-called augmented-reality games -- like Pokmon Go -- and the
second would require the games' creators to cross-reference
their virtual landscapes with lists of offenders' homes and
remove any "in-game objective" within 100 feet of them. Mr.
Klein said that no specific episode had led him to draft the
bills, but that he worried about future Pokmon-related
problems.
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