] Cecilia Barnes, 48, in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in
] Multnomah County, claims an ex-boyfriend began posting
] unauthorized personal profiles of her containing the
] photos in December. The profiles included her e-mail
] address and work phone number.
]
] The former boyfriend also engaged in online discussions
] in Yahoo chat rooms while posing as Barnes and directing
] men to the profiles, the lawsuit claims.
]
] "Due to these profiles and online chats, unknown men
] would arrive without warning at plaintiff's work
] expecting to engage in sexual relations with her," the
] lawsuit claims.

Wow! That sucks!

I am more interested in how the profile was posted. If you can simply create an online personality and populate it with whatever you want, this isn't Yahoo's fault. Yahoo had a user who posted a profile about themselves. Next, some other random person starts emailing Yahoo asking them to remove that user's profile/pictures. Oh course Yahoo will ignore her. Otherwise anyone would DoS their user's info.

Her real beef should be a defamation of character suit against her ex, not Yahoo. This is a misplaced lawsuit.