"There is a growing recognition that minors are slow to report abuse, " said Corey Rayburn Yung, a professor at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago.

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For example, in my report I rate the speech recognition prediction as partially correct.

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The Liberal Democrats' spokesman also pointed to Ofsted's recognition that in future inspectors would be required to report on schools only "when they have sufficient evidence to come to a secure judgement".

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But the price for this was that Mr Prodi had to promise to report to the president, which he duly did, in a public recognition that he had at least temporarily lost his majority.

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Hadopi, the government organization behind the country's existing "three strikes" law, released a new report that proposes websites take a page from YouTube's book and actively monitor content by using recognition algorithms and the like to take down things that are presumed illegal.

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The report also cites the example of Bolivia, which has embraced sweeping forestry reforms that not only give formal recognition to indigenous peoples' rights to forests, but also exempt small-scale producers from onerous regulations and concession fees.

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