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New York's Slap to the Facebook

Frequent Slashdot Contributor Bennett Haselton writes "Last month Facebook had to submit to some ritualistic lashing when New York Attorney General Cuomo accused them of misrepresenting the site's safety features and exposing minors to sexual predators --... ...full story at slashdot

from slashdot on Mon, Nov 12 2007

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26 Sep 07 visit NY Attorney General: Facebook not "safe" enough for minors  »  digg New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has launched an investigation into Facebook over the purported "safety" of the site. Contrary to statements made by the company and its officials, Facebook fails to address complaints about sexual predators and...
25 Sep 07 visit Facebook Ignores Complaints about Sexual Predators (oag.state.ny.us)  »  techmeme Facebook Ignores Complaints about Sexual Predators  —  Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced today that his office is investigating Facebook over representations the company makes about safety measures in place on its website.  In a...
29 Jan 08 visit Facebook, MySpace join NY AG in pushing e-safety bill (InfoWorld)  »  techmeme Facebook, MySpace join NY AG in pushing e-safety bill  —  New York's attorney general and state legislative leaders presented a bill on Tuesday aimed at protecting people from sexual predators on the Internet, and Facebook, MySpace, and...
15 Feb 08 visit The Knol Hypothesis  »  slashdot Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton sends in his latest, which begins like this and continues behind the link. "When Google's VP of Engineering announced their proposed Knol project, where users can submit articles on different subjects and...
11 Feb 08 visit Next Year's Laws, Now Out In Beta!  »  slashdot Frequent Slashdot Contributor Bennett Haselton writes with his latest which starts "If I were writing laws such that I wanted everybody to agree on how to interpret them, I would use the software development life cycle: First, have lawmakers (analogous to...

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