Re:Full body scanners may break child pornography laws
by tentonova2 on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:35PM
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In which country? In the US, that's my understanding of the law, but this is in the UK.
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Re:Full body scanners may break child pornography laws
by jacquesm on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:46PM
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ErrantX is from the UK and probably has more expertise in this area than anybody else here.
Re:Full body scanners may break child pornography laws
by ErrantX on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @05:14PM
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Thanks Jacques :)
To add some more. Here in the UK such images would officially be graded using the Copine Scale[1]. BUt this is not a cut and dried thing; you could technically speaking rate the image as "level 1" (the lowest level) purely for being a nude shot. Family pictures of your kid in the bath, or a nudist holiday (for example) would fall into this categary - officially.
What's crucial is context: which is why this is highly subjective. A family bath pic amongst a whole load of family pics is not something you would, clearly, get in trouble for. Amongst a set of other indecent images then yes.
Because of the context of the image and the fact it is deleted (one hopes securely) after viewing I personally dont think it would be classed indecent.