The New York attorney general's office is investigating Facebook to see if the site really keeps your children safe from from pedophiles as it claims it does. The New York Times reports that New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo has filed a subpoena asking Facebook to provide documentation about its security provisions and complaint practices.
Cuomo apparently wrote a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg informing him that “Facebook has the right to operate any type of Web site it deems fit.” However, the letter goes on the say, Facebook “does not have the right to represent that its site is safe and that it promptly responds to complaints when such statements are not accurate.”
The subpoena request is a result of an investigation in which the attorney general office set up a profile for a fictitious 14-year-old girl and was contacted a week later by a 24-year-old man asking her for “nude pics.”
The Times also reports that, in a separate case, an investigator from Mr. Cuomo's office “set up profiles for a 13-year-old girl and for an adult who wrote to the teen, saying, ‘You've got quite a hot little bod.'” After posing as the girl's mother and writing to Facebook demanding it take action, there was, according to Cuomo, no response.
The New York attorney general has not filed any charges against Facebook at this time.
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