Msn Messenger will have a sexual predator panic button
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:19 pm
MICROSOFT HAS installed a panic button in its Messenger product that will enable users to report suspected sexual predators directly to the police.
According to the Guardian, the Vole’s "report abuse" icon on Messenger will connect users worried about their anonymous Internet buddies directly to online police department.
S: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33884
Nice idea, but i can see a bunch of kids using it to prank someone, or someone hiting it accidently and reporting their online buddies as a sexaual predator to the police.
According to the Guardian, the Vole’s "report abuse" icon on Messenger will connect users worried about their anonymous Internet buddies directly to online police department.
S: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33884
Nice idea, but i can see a bunch of kids using it to prank someone, or someone hiting it accidently and reporting their online buddies as a sexaual predator to the police.