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Ah, the delicious ironyYahoo pulls the plug on fake profiles
used by British police
It's hard to fault Yahoo! in this case.
INTERNET companies including Yahoo! are hindering police investigations into child abuse by closing down the undercover identities used by officers to trap paedophiles. British child protection police habitually pose as children online, using false profiles to ensnare abusers trying to groom girls and boys for sex. But the companies say they will shut down all bogus identities on their sites even if they know they are being run to catch paedophiles. “Everybody using our service, regardless of whether they are law enforcement agencies, has to abide by our terms of service and if they don’t we will close them down,” said Yahoo!. Its terms of service state that all information used to make up a profile must be “true, accurate current and complete”. The stipulations are intended to protect users from exploitation and abuse, but antiabuse campaigners say they are frustrating police sting operations on hardcore offenders. Why should police have special privileges not available to the general public? Why should a private company overlook abuses of services just because it is government agents? Yes, I know it is that old saw about "protecting the children," but without that justification, doesn't Yahoo! owe it's customers protection from frauds online? 
Posted: Sun - May 20, 2007 at 02:31 PM
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