The office of New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo has spearheaded the creation of a database of "digital fingerprints" to flag child pornography, an announcement explained. With the hash values of over 8,000 known child-porn images stored in the database, Cuomo said that he hopes its intended clients -- social-networking, file-sharing, and photo storage sites -- will start to use it "immediately."
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