MySpace bolsters defenses, faces sex predator suit
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MySpace.com, the top online teen  hangout, said on Tuesday it will bolster protection for minors  amid a flurry of complaints about sexual predators prowling the  site and a lawsuit filed on Monday by a teenage girl charging  it with negligent security practices.
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The arrests come after authorities asked MySpace to hand over information on convicted sex offenders.
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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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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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Social networking website MySpace blocks over 29,000 sex offenders, a four-fold increase on May.
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Top global social networking site  MySpace.com plans on Monday to unveil a campaign to educate  parents, schools and teenagers about Internet safety as it  moves to protect many of its young users.
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By MARGARET LILLARD  RALEIGH, N.C. - Faced with legal demands from several state attorneys general, MySpace.com said it will immediately begin sharing data on the registered sex offenders it has identified and removed from its popular social networking Web site.
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By Tulsa World, Okla.  May 28--Many older users may be leery about safety when using MySpace. That's understandable, as media reports about online predators often single out such social networking sites as prime vehicles for these criminals.
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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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MySpace announces an agreement with 49 state attorneys general to protect children on the popular social networking site.
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MySpace will let its users send and receive messages, comment on pictures, post bulletins, update blogs, find friends and update their mood status on cell phones.
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News Corp's MySpace, the world's largest online social network, said on Wednesday it will allow outside developers further access to its service to counter the growth of smaller rival Facebook.
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Fears that teenagers using the social networking website MySpace are exposing themselves to sexual predators by disclosing too many personal details are probably overblown, researchers say.
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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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A 14-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by another user of MySpace.com sued the social networking Web site Monday, claiming it does not take sufficient steps to protect underage members.
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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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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.