http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070725/ddv20070725/ by John Paczkowski Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070725/ddv20070725/comment-page-1/#comment-554 2007 September 26 | Digital Daily | AllThingsD Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:29:36 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070725/ddv20070725/#comment-554 [...] Facebook’s executive management lineup doesn’t yet include a chief security officer, but it may soon, now that the New York attorney general’s office is investigating it Facebook for failing to protect minors. In an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo said that within days of setting up fake profiles for 12-year-old to 14-year-old users, OAG investigators “received numerous sexual solicitations from adults sent to several of the underage profiles…” Worse, when the investigators complained to the company it often responded lethargically or failed to act at all. Which belies Facebook’s portrayal of itself as safer alternative to MySpace. [...] [...] Facebook’s executive management lineup doesn’t yet include a chief security officer, but it may soon, now that the New York attorney general’s office is investigating it Facebook for failing to protect minors. In an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo said that within days of setting up fake profiles for 12-year-old to 14-year-old users, OAG investigators “received numerous sexual solicitations from adults sent to several of the underage profiles…” Worse, when the investigators complained to the company it often responded lethargically or failed to act at all. Which belies Facebook’s portrayal of itself as safer alternative to MySpace. [...]

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