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MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the not-if-but-when dept.

gbulmash writes "In its eagerness to clear sex offenders off its site and publish their identities, MySpace identified an innocent woman as a sex offender. She shares a name and birth month with a sex offender who lives in a neighboring state and that was apparently enough to get MySpace to wrongly brand her and completely ignore her protests."

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  1. Re:It's a good thing, then... by daveschroeder · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Did you RTFA before spouting off? Oh wait /., I forgot where i was.

    Yes, I did.

    The matching system is imperfect, no matter the level automation or humans are involved.

    Colorado was viewed as close enough to Utah.

    The responsibility of the firm was to make a best guess about whether a person could be a match.

    Someone erred.

    Doesn't change anything I said in my post.

    Did you think about the situation a bit before spouting off? Oh wait /., I forgot where i was.