A woman is suing Yahoo! for $3 million over the fact that they didn’t remove nude photos of her that her ex boyfriend posted on several free Yahoo! profiles site. Not personals, profiles. Yahoo has millions of them, you get one for free if you sign up for any sort of Yahoo service. After posting her work details and emails address, men started showing up thinking they were going to have relations with the woman. Her ex also impersonated her in Yahoo! chat rooms.
The woman sent Yahoo a letter in January saying she did not create the profiles and wanted them removed. Additional attempts to get Yahoo to remove them in February and March did not get a response, the lawsuit claims.
We’re going to see more and more of this sort of thing as blogs become more popular. Post a photo of your ex and tag it with “myex” and Technorati picks it up within minutes. How in the world are hosting services like TypePad and Blogger going to figure out if a post or photo is legitimate?
Eight out of the last 10 women who contacted me on Yahoo! were prostitutes or Baltic women looking for a sugar daddy. 80% spam rate is a huge problem for Yahoo. I don’t get this much on any other site at the moment. Yahoo must develop algorithms to weed out the spam profiles before it’s too late.
CNN story.
