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A System For Handling 'Impostor' Complaints

Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "A woman sued Yahoo because they wouldn't remove a page created by her ex-boyfriend pretending to be her and soliciting strangers for sex. What would be an effective system for large companies like... ...full story at slashdot

from slashdot on Mon, May 18 2009

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