Yahoo accused of aiding abusers

PREVIOUSLY IT was Skype. Now it's Yahoo's turns to be publicly slammed - this time for hindering investigations into child abuse by closing down undercover police identities.

Kidscape's director, Dr Michele Elliott, told the Sunday Times that she found the service's refusal to allow undercover operations "absolutely ridiculous".

A Yahoo spokesperson told the newspaper, "Everybody using our service, regardless of whether they are law enforcement agencies, has to abide by our terms of service.

If they don't we will close them down." Obviously, they're only obeying orders from the lawyers, then.

The man who leads the UK's Metropolitan Police child abuse investigation command, Brian Ward, is quoted as saying that other companies such as Bebo and Myspace had recently become more helpful.

The newspaper is, of course, basking in the glory of its recent 'sting' operation in which a reporter posed on Skype as a 14 year old girl.

Subsequently Hampshire police have arrested a man who came to meet her. µ

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