Warnings over social site 'abuse'
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Report reveals shortcomings in social networking sites Bebo and MySpace.
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LONDON, Oct 16  (IPS) - An information rights activist has warned against  the growing power of the  "landlords" of cyberspace.
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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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The social news site is mulling changes to the way the stories on its front door are promoted and ranked in response to charges of abuse, a move that may cost it its most loyal and enthusiastic contributors.
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Several incidents highlight the dangers life online presents to preserving your privacy.
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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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By David Crow  With adults and teenagers increasingly well catered for by social networking sites, children are the new growth market. But with the danger of online fraudsters and, even more disturbingly, paedophiles, the industry has to move carefully.
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Honeypot project shows more than adult sites contain malicious threats.
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MacCentral - A handful of Web sites, including the site for the popular open source bulletin board project phpBB, have been compromised this week by a group apparently trying to make a political point.
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The UK government is urged to make it illegal for websites to incite or advise people how to commit suicide.
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By Anick Jesdanun  NEW YORK - The operators of the online hangout site Facebook.com wanted to help users save time by highlighting changes their friends make to their personal profile pages. Instead, the new feature has drawn complaints from thousands of users and even threats of a boycott.
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TechWeb - The popular social networking site is taking steps to protect its young users.
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Lycos vigilante attack on spammers has been hit by a vigilante attack. Spammers are suspected.
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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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Sam blogs about his wiki spam problems  and implements a posting throttle.  With new spam-capable zombie PCs and with wikis that aren't updated very often this isn't a solution.  If I were to go back to my wiki after a month it would be covered with spam links.  One strong solution is emergent and distributed social whitelists (AKA my FOAFKey  proposal).  With a FOAFKey enabled wiki/weblog you could allow a whitelist of a few hundred thousand users to post to the wiki without any problems.  All they would need to enter is their email address for confirmation (or the SHA1 hash of their email).  For the rare times when the user isn't within the original whitelist we can just have the user uplo ...
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By BILLY PATERSON CLAIMS that teen bullies are using an internet chat site to terrorise victims and identify targets are being probed by police.
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Beware Web 2.0 con-men and malware Many adult users of social network sites such as MySpace and Facebook expose themselves to risk from identity thieves and hackers, according to a new US study.â¦