Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Online Passwords
A new law in Georgia will require sex offenders to hand over passwords, e-mail addresses and screen names to authorities starting today. I'm not sure how well this law is going to work, not because of legal challenges, but because we all know it is sooo hard to get more than one e-mail address.
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A new law in Georgia will require sex offenders to hand over passwords, e-mail addresses and screen names to authorities starting today. I'm not sure how well this law is going to work, not because of legal challenges, but because we all know it is sooo hard to get more than one e-mail address.
The need to protect children "outweighs a lot of the rights of these individuals." "We limit where they can live, we make their information available on the Internet. To some degree, we do invade their privacy," said Staton, a Republican from Macon. "But the feeling is, they have forfeited, to some degree, some privacy rights."