http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/25/defiant-judge-takes-on-child-pornography-law/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/25/defiant-judge-takes-on-child-pornography-law/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 16:13:01 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/25/defiant-judge-takes-on-child-pornography-law/ ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/25/defiant-judge-takes-on-child-pornography-law/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/12/21/new-software-battles-child-pornography/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/12/21/new-software-battles-child-pornography/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:30:10 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=45964 OneNewsNow: "Microsoft has developed PhotoDNA, software technology that helps calculate the distinct characteristics of a digital image to match it to other copies of that same image . . . Trueman says that 'if the National Center has perhaps a thousand new child pornography photos that come in on one day, they might be able to identify ten children in those photos. With the Microsoft software, the other photos will be looked at for characteristics which the software can identify and tie to particular children.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/12/21/new-software-battles-child-pornography/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/21/what-is-sexting-why-is-it-a-problem-what-parents-and-teens-need-to-know/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/21/what-is-sexting-why-is-it-a-problem-what-parents-and-teens-need-to-know/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:29:39 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=36567 press release accompanying its policy statement on "sexting": "A survey conducted for NCMEC by Cox Communications and released in June 2009 found that 19% of teens surveyed had sent, received, or forwarded sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude photos through text message or e-mail. Of the teens surveyed who had engaged in 'sexting,' 60% sent the photos to a boyfriend/girlfriend and 11% sent them to someone they did not know." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/21/what-is-sexting-why-is-it-a-problem-what-parents-and-teens-need-to-know/feed/ 0