Do Not Let Your Kids Use the VideoPhone This Way

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A deaf young teenager in New York City has been arrested for using a videophone as a tool of terror to contact a younger girl and threatening to kill her. The girl victim was only 10 years old and a student at New York School for the Deaf. The perpetrator was in eighth grade at another New York School, the St. Joseph School for the Deaf, making him at least 13. He got the girl's videophone number from someone else, and when he called her to make his threat, he hid his face with a bandana. Then he told the girl he would kill her the next day and brandished a handgun.
Sorenson was contacted by the police and requested to provide the video phone records. Sorenson refused. It was not until a judge intervened that Sorenson provided the information to the police. Guide comment: This concerns me. This was a case involving kids. What happens when it is a more serious case involving adults? Sorenson may be obligated to protect people's privacy, but when crime is involved, should privacy still be protected??

The arrest happened on April 15, but I only now found out about this via the news article.
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Deaf child allegedly terrorized by video death threats - Norwalk News - The Hour
 
Isn't there a phone number on the bottom of the screen tells you who it is from? Why not take that number instead of calling Soresen??
 
Really no different than using a web cam. Stuff like this are too commom.

Big brother is watching!

Text, emails etc, are stored and records can be retreived, upon court order.

Shame, how people take advantage and use technology to commit crimes.
 
Companies are so afraid of being sued that they often err on the side of their own legal safety and not the safety of their customers.

There are many companies out there who have better policy when it comes to potential criminal acts with their equipment. Hopefully Sorenson will assign someone to look into some better policy.
 
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