Bill Text: NJ AR70 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges Congress to require makers of Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart programs to prevent their software from randomly generating profane or other inappropriate words.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-10 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee [AR70 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-AR70-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ROBERT SCHROEDER
District 39 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblyman UPENDRA J. CHIVUKULA
District 17 (Middlesex and Somerset)
SYNOPSIS
Urges Congress to require makers of Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart programs to prevent their software from randomly generating profane or other inappropriate words.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Assembly Resolution respectfully urging the United States Congress to require the makers of Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart programs to prevent their software from randomly generating profane or other inappropriate words.
Whereas, Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart or "CAPTCHA" programs, frequently present a user with a set of randomly generated words, which are displayed in a distorted manner that computers cannot read, and require that user to type out those words as verification that the user is human; and
Whereas, A recent study found that 80 percent of children under the age of five access the Internet on a weekly basis; and
Whereas, It is inevitable that these children and other minors will access websites that utilize CAPTCHA program; and
Whereas, It is possible that a CAPTCHA program could randomly generate a profane or other inappropriate word; and
Whereas, The creators of CAPTCHA programs could design the program to prevent its random generation of profane or other inappropriate words; now, therefore
Be It Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The United States Congress is respectfully urged to require the makers of Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart programs to design their software to prevent its random generation of profane or other inappropriate words.
2. Duly authenticated copies of this resolution, signed by the Speaker of the General Assembly and attested by the Clerk thereof, shall be transmitted to the Majority and Minority Leaders of the United States Senate, the Speaker and Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, and every member of Congress elected from this State.
STATEMENT
This resolution respectfully urges the United States Congress to require the makers of Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart or "CAPTCHA" programs to design their software to prevent its random generation of profane or other inappropriate words.
CAPTCHA programs frequently present a user with a set of randomly generated words, which are displayed in a distorted manner that computers cannot read, and require that user to type out those words as verification that the user is human. Given the Internet usage patterns of today's children, it is inevitable that a minor will access websites that utilize CAPTCHA software. Therefore, it is possible that a minor could view a profane or other inappropriate word that was randomly generated by a CAPTCHA software. Since the creators of CAPTCHA software could prevent their programs from randomly generating profane or other inappropriate words, Congress should require them to do so.
