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I suppose the Devil made him do it...Verizon turns in Baltimore church deacon for storing child porn in cloud
Verizon detected porn in his backups.
A deacon at St. Joseph's Church in Fullerton, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore, was arrested last week for possession of child pornography after Verizon detected images and videos of children performing sexual acts.
William Steven Albaugh, a 67-year old retiree ordained as a Catholic deacon in 1996, was taken into custody by Baltimore County Police officers on March 1. He admitted to collecting child pornography since the 1970s, but he claimed not to have been involved in creating the porn himself. Police believe none of the images are of children from the church, its school, or the Fullerton community.
Verizon detected the pornographic images stored in Albaugh's Verizon Online Backup and Sharing account. The company reported his account to Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who in turn passed the information to Baltimore County law enforcement. Police investigating the case found files both on his Verizon account and on a flash drive, and authorities seized two PCs and an iPad as well. Albaugh said he used the iPad to view "nudist websites that include pictures of children," The Baltimore Sun reports.
Although the mug shot makes him look evil anyway... Updated: How Verizon found child pornography in its cloud
Scanned files using hashes of known child pornography images.
This story has been updated with information from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Baltimore County Police Department.
Cloud-based storage services are no doubt useful. They can back up your personal data and keep it from being lost if your system crashes. They can share your data across multiple computers. But cloud-based services are increasingly checking user-uploaded data for illegal content—particularly child pornography.
When Congress passed the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 mandating that service providers report suspected child pornography in the content that their customers surf and store, the law gave providers an out: if they couldn't check, they wouldn't know, and they wouldn't have to report it. But while checking is still voluntary, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has been pushing providers to use image-matching technology to help stop the spread of child pornography.
William Albaugh found this out the hard way when he backed up his home computer to Verizon's online backup service. The 67-year-old deacon of a Catholic church in Baltimore County didn’t realize he was giving away his secret—after he allegedly uploaded pornographic images and videos of children to his Online Backup and Sharing cloud account, they were scanned by a Verizon partner using technology that can automatically check images and videos for the presence of children known to be the victims of pornographers.
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Yep.Tribble wrote:I for one, am happy. I have no problem with this scanning technology.
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So if you have a odd fetish don't move to the NZ...Legal in the US, watching “pixie sex” lands New Zealand man in jail
But "fake" images of children have been debated in US courts and are now illegal.
In Japan, the viewing of hentai, or sexually explicit cartoons, is a mainstream activity. But it's far from accepted in many other countries. In fact, now a New Zealand man has been sentenced to three months in jail for watching cartoons of "elves, pixies, and other fantasy creatures" have sex.
The man's lawyer said the Japanese anime cartoons consisted of creatures that "you knew at a glance weren't human," and said his client's conviction for possessing digitally created pornography represents "the law gone mad."
The characters were "clearly young elves and pixies, which led to concerns the images were linked to child sexual abuse," reported Fairfax NZ News. New Zealand anti-child pornography activists defended the conviction, saying the images could encourage people "to migrate from there to the real thing."
In the US, the legality of "virtual child pornography" which involves created images of children has been debated in courts. Regular child pornography isn't protected by free-speech rules, because the production of the images is itself harmful to children. Distribution and viewing of such images is also illegal, as that activity contributes to the market for a product that harms children.
However, the legality of "virtual" child porn was upheld in a 2002 US Supreme Court ruling, Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition. In response to that ruling, Congress passed a 2003 law called the PROTECT Act, with more specific language about what kind of computer images are banned. If a computer-generated image is "indistinguishable from" child pornography, then it can be prosecuted even if no actual child was involved.
Thus, making "fake" child porn is a really bad idea and can land you in jail. In the US, people have been prosecuted for viewing animated pictures of children having sex.
But the "indistinguishable from" language—drawn straight from the Supreme Court's ruling in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition case—means that watching young elves, pixies, and other non-humans get it on will probably remain legal.
True but again it goes about depicting minors and when a court feels it crosses that boundary then scratching that seems to be the best coarse of action. If you think about the stuff that were on the sci-fi channel that was dubbed as anime more than half the stuff were overly gorified and sexed up.ADT wrote:Hentai is generally just messed up IMO