State Eyes Age Checks for MySpace
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Connecticut legislators want to force social-networking sites to verify users' ages and lock down parents' permission before minors can post personal profiles. By the Associated Press.
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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.com Growing Up MySpace.com is breaking its mold of the teenage online hotspot and is attracting more of an older crowd according to a recent analysis by comScore Media Metrix. According to comScore, more than half of the users of MySpace are 35 or older. An analysis of visitors to MySpace.com shows that as the site has [...]
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Prosecutors in New York state are investigating whether social networking website Facebook is living up to its word when it comes to protecting young Internet users from sexual predators.
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US states applaud safeguards MySpace is mending its frayed relations with the top law enforcers of 50 US jurisdictions by beefing up measures to protect underage users from pedophiles.â¦
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The popular online hangout MySpace said Tuesday 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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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 Melody Mcdonald, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 17--FORT WORTH -- Tarrant County prosecutor Lori Varnell looked at the teen-age girl's MySpace page, and a red flag went up.
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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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The social network will require age verification and use technology to block sexual predators from gaining access to the site.
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A negligence lawsuit filed by a Texas family after a 13-year-old girl was assaulted by a 19-year-old man after meeting on MySpace was dismissed Wednesday, with a judge saying the site was protected by the Communications Decency Act.
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How to hand over the details MySpace this week asked a Pennsylvania state court for advice on how it could hand over information about registered sex offenders without breaking US data protection and privacy laws.â¦
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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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By J. Scott Trubey< Staff Writer  The Columbia County Library will play host Thursday night to a program  for parents wanting to know more about the dangers of online communities  such as MySpace.com.
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Police launched a Web site on Tuesday to  warn children as young as eight about the dangers of putting  their personal details on social networking sites such as  MySpace and Bebo.
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MySpace announces an agreement with 49 state attorneys general to protect children on the popular social networking site.
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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.