23
June
CUOMO AIMS TO KEEP CHILD PORN OFF SOCIAL SITES
Legalnewsline.com/Keith Loria
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on Thursday that he has started a newinitiative to help social networking sites keep child pornography off of the Internet. Theinitiative uses a database containing hash values, considered to be digital fingerprints in theInternet world, that will be made available to social networking sites. Over 8,000 childpornography images hash tags have been collected by Cuomo’s office. Both Facebook and MySpacehave already signed up to use the database to help stop child porn and Cuomo has urged other major sites to come