After reading this, I definitely had to write about this. While it’s true that MySpace is cooperating with states and giving them sex offender data, as well as taking down MySpace pages associated with such offenders, if they make a mistake … they need to admit it. In this case a woman was mistakenly labeled as a sex offender, had her page taken down, and MySpace has yet to respond to her … despite the fact that the security company they outsourced some of the work to has said she is innocent.
It took nearly a week for Jessica Davis to get an explanation about why MySpace had labeled her a sex offender and pulled her profile from the social networking Web site.
And when her name was finally cleared, it wasn’t because of anything MySpace did.
“They have a corporate and a moral responsibility to me as far as coming up and saying, ‘We messed up. This is going on. We’re doing what we can to fix it,’” said the 29-year-old, newly engaged University of Colorado senior, a woman who confessed to losing her driver’s license for careless driving a decade ago but insisted she’d never committed a crime to earn the status of sex offender. Source: ABC News
As I said, Sentinel CEO John Cardillo has come to her defense, but MySpace has yet to apologize, or even contact her directly short of “form emails.” The scariest thing is this sort of thing could happen to anyone, even to you and I, and I personally feel that MySpace should come out with a public apology … and be more careful in the future.
