MySpace and 45 States Team Up to Fight Online Predators
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The social networking Web site has agreed to include online protections and participate in a working group to develop age-verification technologies, according to an official familiar with the agreement.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Law enforcement agencies from three continents have a new website aimed at deterring and preventing online exploitation of children.
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The social networking site MySpace announced yesterday that it has reached an agreement with attorneys general from 49 states and the District of Columbia on measures designed to improve the safety of teenagers not only on its popular social networking site, but on the Internet in general.
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U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday proposed  requiring sex offenders to register their e-mail and instant  messaging addresses with law enforcement authorities in a bid  to protect children using popular social Internet sites like  MySpace.
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Under mounting pressure from law enforcement and parents, MySpace agreed Monday to take steps to protect youngsters from online sexual predators and bullies, including searching for ways to better verify users' ages.
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MySpace has been advocating that governments require sex offenders to register their online identities. On Monday, it may have found its first ally in that fight: Robert McDonnell, the attorney general for the state of Virginia.
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Social networking Web sites like MySpace and Facebook would have access to a database of sex offenders for checking names and addresses against public profiles under a bill introduced Tuesday in Congress.
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Faced with legal demands from state attorneys general, MySpace.com said yesterday that it would release information on registered sex offenders it has identified and removed from the social-networking Web site.
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New York lawmakers proposed legislation on Tuesday that would provide new protection from convicted sex offenders hanging out on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
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More than 140 sex offenders  convicted in New Jersey had profiles on the networking Web site  MySpace, the state&#39;s attorney general said on Tuesday.
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More than 140 sex offenders convicted in New Jersey had profiles on the networking Web site MySpace, the state's attorney general said on Tuesday.
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Fending off predators, preteens and malware perpetrators on the most-visited Web site in the nation? Meet the guy who's got the job you're glad you don't have.
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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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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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Connecticut and at least a dozen other states are considering whether to require convicted sex offenders to register their e-mail addresses as part of efforts to combat online sexual predators.
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Popular Internet social network  MySpace said on Tuesday it detected and deleted 29,000  convicted sex offenders on its service, more than four times  the figure it had initially reported.
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NEW YORK -- The popular online hangout MySpace said yesterday it will develop technologies to help block convicted sex offenders, the site's latest attempt to address complaints about sexual predators and other dangers to teens.