Abuse fight targets social sites
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Social network sites are being urged to do more to help young users report online abuse.
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Police and internet companies launch a website for children to report possible paedophile activity.
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The founders of a social networking website take legal action to try to shut down its rival, Facebook.
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New York City employee pension  funds are calling on two top Internet companies to do more to  protect free speech in repressive countries, joining a year-old  campaign by human rights groups.
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By BILLY PATERSON  CLAIMS that teen bullies are using an internet chat site to terrorise victims and identify targets are being probed by police.
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Facebook is suing seventeen people and a Canadian Internet porn company for allegedly trying to mine the popular social networking site for its users&#39; personal details.Facebook alleges that in June servers controlled by the defendants used automated scripts to make more than 200,000 requests for personal information stored on Facebook&#39;s site. The allegations are contained in an amended lawsuit filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California.The company first filed suit back in June, but amended the complaint this month after obtaining court orders to identify who controlled the servers trying to access its site.Experts have warned people against publishing too much personal information on social networking sites for fear it could be collected and then abused by fraudsters.Facebook, one of the most-used social networking sites after MySpace, said the automated scripts caused error messages to be generated, but the company did not say if user information was successfully collected.Named in the suit is Istra Holdings, which controls SlickCash.com, an affiliate advertising business that offers commissions to Web publishers for referring Internet surfers to its portfolio of adult sites.It also names Brian Fabian and Josh Raskin, both of whom the suit says work at Istra in Toronto, and Ming Wu of Markham, Ontario, as well as 14 other unidentified people.Facebook said the hacking attempts cost it at least US$5,000 to investigate. The company has requested a jury trial and is seeking to bar the defendants from accessing its computer systems in the future, in addition to damages.&#160;
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Â· Website pictures return to haunt beauty queen  Â· Case raises questions over teenage internet privacy
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A right-wing Hindu group has asked  public Internet centers in India to partly block access to  Orkut, and is making a software to monitor abusive communities  on the popular social networking site operated by Google.
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Social workers were the target of a series of vicious and personal attacks this week -- and their bosses were found wanting when it came to offering them protection.   The attack came on the internet through a Google-owned weblog site.
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MySpace is sued by the families of five girls who were allegedly assaulted by men they met through the site.
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After the New York digital media maven posted copious screenshots of a Facebook profile on Gawker, a blog reports that the social-networking site is ready to crack down on such violations.
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CHICAGO _ For the first time, Facebook.com is facing the realities of being used by would-be predators.
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The countryâs largest social-networking Web site has agreed with attorneys general of 49 states to take new steps to protect children from sexual predators on its site.
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Facebook, the second-largest social-networking site, must respond within &quot;a few weeks&quot; to requests by state attorneys general that it do more to protect kids from sexual predators, says Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.
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Facebook members are mounting a fight to save the Scrabulous game on Facebook.
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A Los Angeles Times report claims that federal authorities are looking for cooperation from the News Corp.-owned social-networking site surrounding the cyberbullying-related death of a 13-year-old girl in 2006.
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A closer look at the privacy issue It has recently been reported that Attorneys Generals from about a dozen US States, including Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Mississippi, Maryland, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania have demanded that News Corporation's social networking site MySpace voluntarily deliver a list of all sex offenders who have registered for or used the MySpace social networking service.â¦