Youths in Plea Deal in MySpace Case
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By LINDA DEUTSCH LOS ANGELES - Two young New York men accused of trying to extort $150,000 from MySpace.com by developing code that tracked visitors pleaded no contest Monday to illegal computer access in a bargain with the prosecution.
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By Brian Alexander, Seattle Times  Feb. 24--Bellevue police arrested a 58-year-old man Friday who they say tried to lure a 14-year-old boy he met on MySpace .com.   The man allegedly met the boy online, then arranged a Feb.
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Social network MySpace, a popular online hangout for teens, and 49 U.S. state attorneys general on Monday issued guidelines for protecting youths on the Internet with the aim of promoting those principles throughout the industry.
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By Allen Salkin  Happy Blitt contributed research.  *  Last month, the Web site Perverted-Justice.com posted news of the conviction of Sean Young, a Wisconsin man sentenced to 10 years in state prison for soliciting sex online from a 14-year-old girl.
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By Charles Keeshan  ckeeshan@@dailyherald.com  Authorities arrested a 16-year-old Cary boy accused of sending a threatening message and graphic images of mutilated genitalia to a female acquaintance through the social networking Web site MySpace.
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A 14-year-old girl is suing the social networking site, where she met the man charged with sexually assaulting her. Now the man she says assaulted her may pursue his own legal case against MySpace
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- MySpace reached an agreement with legal authorities in 49 states on changing its social networking Web site to help prevent sexual predators and others from misusing it, state officials said Monday.
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By Thomas J. Morgan; Journal Staff Writer  Lawrence P. Filippelli talks to area students and parents about MySpace and other youth-oriented Web sites.
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Social network MySpace, a popular  online hangout for teens, and 49 U.S. state attorneys general  on Monday issued guidelines for protecting youths on the  Internet with the aim of promoting those principles throughout  the industry.
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News Corp.'s  MySpace filed a  request on Monday in a Pennsylvania state court to seek  guidance on how it can legally provide local authorities with  the private e-mails of convicted sex offenders who had lurked  on its service.
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By ADRIANA COLINDRES STATE CAPITOL BUREAU After issuing a subpoena to the online site MySpace.com, Attorney General Lisa Madigan last week received the names of nearly 600 registered Illinois sex offenders who could be using MySpace to prey on children.
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Under mounting public pressure, MySpace.com had little choice but to hand over to state authorities information on registered sex offenders who might cruise the Internet to lure unsuspecting youngsters.  But more remains to be done to protect the vulnerable from online predators.
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FTC dishes out $1m penalty A social networking website has agreed to pay a $1m fine to settle with authorities over allegations that it collected, used and disclosed personal details of children under 13.â¦
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By Scott Rothschild, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  May 27--TOPEKA -- Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison said a recent agreement with MySpace Web site to provide information on thousands of sex offenders is just one step in continuing efforts to monitor social networking on the Internet.
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New York officials want sex offenders to provide their Internet identities to the state, which would then share the information with social networking sites like MySpace to protect users from online predators, according to a law proposed Tuesday.
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MySpace.com is planning new restrictions on how adults may contact its younger users in response to growing concerns about the safety of teenagers who frequent the popular online social networking site.
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Blackmail charges dropped against tracking software duo Blackmail charges have been dropped against a pair of hackers accused of mounting an extortion scam against MySpace as part of a plea-bargaining agreement.â¦