MySpace.com Moves to Keep Sex Offenders Off of Its Site
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My Space.com, the social networking site, said Tuesday that it would begin cross-referencing its users against state databases of registered sex offenders.
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News Corp.'s (NWSa.N) MySpace said on  Tuesday it will offer in the next 30 days a technology to  identify and block convicted sex offenders from the popular  online social network.
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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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New York sex offenders would be required to reveal their online aliases to the state under legislation that aims to protect users of MySpace, FaceBook and other Web hangouts from Internet predators.
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MySpace, which we recently wrote about due to its partnership with Google, has shut down hundreds of user profiles as a precaution to a worm which is infecting user computers via MySpace &#038; Apple&#8217;s QuickTime media player. The worm seems to change user profiles and add malicious links and content when the video is played. Joris [...]
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The site develops a database to keep out sexual predators, then hands it over to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Yay? In Sex Drive Daily.
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MySpace has reached an agreement with more than 45 states to change to help prevent sexual predators and others from misusing it, state officials said Monday.
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Two U.S. senators said on Thursday  they would introduce legislation that would potentially protect  users of popular social networking sites like News Corp's  MySpace from registered sex offenders.
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MySpace to create a database to identify and remove profiles created by sex offenders.
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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.
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By SUSAN M. COVER Blethen Maine News Service  It's illegal for certain convicted sex offenders to visit Web sites that are popular with children.  But a lawmaker from Presque Isle  says a lack of money makes it hard to enforce the law.  Rep.
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An agreement between MySpace and most U.S. state attorneys general aims to significantly increase the safety of minors on the popular social network.
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has proposed strict legislation that would ban some sex offenders from using social-networking services like MySpace or Facebook.
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Attorney General Bob McDonnell said Monday he will seek legislation requiring convicted sex offenders to register their online identities with the state to help MySpace and other online hangouts more easily block access.
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A new police tool on the Internet has prompted hoax sites on MySpace.com, and the popular networking site is shutting them down.  At least 16 police or sheriffs&#39; departments appeared to have profile pages on MySpace to seek investigative tips or deter predators, but USA TODAY found that at least six were fakes.
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A Web site that enables its users to store photos and video for inclusion in MySpace profiles will become a part of the popular online hangout.
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It did not take very long for data released by MySpace on sex offenders to be used in the apprehension of those who are using the site in violation of their parole or probation rules.