Does Bebo’s Chief Safety Officer know how social network signup works?
The front page of yesterdays Irish Times carried a story about an international expert on online paedophile activity who is suggesting that the Government should provide email addresses to every pupil in Irish schools to help verify their age when signing up to internet communities.
The international expert who suggested this is one Dr Rachel O’Connell, Bebo’s Chief Safety Officer. It is amazing that someone holding such an important position in one of the companies hosting these online communities would propose such a technically deficient policy. Users of social websites can sign up using any email address they own, not just one that a government might allocate.
The technical managers at Bebo would do well to vet these statements in future. They reflect very badly on the percieved competence of the company’s management team as a whole.
