Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "Summary: Amid the latest "sexting" controversy, here is a proposal for a scientifically objective method to determine whether a picture constitutes child pornography. This is a harder problem than it... ...full story at slashdot
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| 20 Feb 09 |
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Why Doesn't the IWF Notify Those Whom They Block? » slashdot Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "What if the IWF notified site owners when it added their content to the UK's national 'child pornography' blacklist? Besides the blocking of the Virgin Killer cover art on Wikipedia, we don't know how... |
| 11 Feb 08 |
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Next Year's Laws, Now Out In Beta! » slashdot Frequent Slashdot Contributor Bennett Haselton writes with his latest which starts "If I were writing laws such that I wanted everybody to agree on how to interpret them, I would use the software development life cycle: First, have lawmakers (analogous to... |
| 27 May 09 |
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'Sexting' no worse than spin-the-bottle: study » digg Youths exchanging nude photos of themselves over cellphones, known as "sexting," should not face child pornography charges, as some have in the United States, a humanities conference heard Tuesday. |
| 21 Jul 09 |
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P.I.I. In the Sky » slashdot Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "A judge rules that IP addresses are not 'personally identifiable information' (PII) because they identify computers, not people. That's absurd, but in truth there is no standard definition of PII in... |
| 15 Feb 08 |
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The Knol Hypothesis » slashdot Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton sends in his latest, which begins like this and continues behind the link. "When Google's VP of Engineering announced their proposed Knol project, where users can submit articles on different subjects and... |