Click! You’re a sex offender!
Microsoft adds ‘one-click’ sex offender report tool
Quentin Reade
Young people using Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger to chat online with friends can now make a report to police with one click if they are concerned their online ‘buddy’ is a sex offender.
…The tab will appear on both MSN Messenger, and its replacement, Windows Live Messenger. As well as a ‘one click’ link through to a report to the police, each week, CEOP and Microsoft will provide a new safety tip as part of the tab, for example, how to safeguard your personal details or to how to spot a potential threat.
…Jim Gamble, chief executive of the CEOP Centre and chair of the VGT said:
“What Microsoft and the CEOP are doing today is saying is ‘enough is enough’. By working together in a very clear and tangible way we can safeguard children from online sexual predators.</i>
Or allow some nut to wreck someones life on a whim by pressing a button that alerts police to “suspicious behavior”. The potential for abuse with this “tool” is rather easy to see, don’t ya think? And yet again, more power to the police state under the ruse of “helping the children”.
