MySpace Shares Sex-Offender Data
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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 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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In an effort to curb use of the site by sex offenders, MySpace plans to introduce technology that would identify and block those attempting to use its social networking service.
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Details of missing high risk sex offenders could be published on the internet to alert parents.
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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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Social networking website MySpace says it will release tools to identify and block US sex offenders from its site.
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The social-networking site MySpace.com has donated technology it helped develop to identify and block sexual predators from online communities.
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Texas police arrested seven convicted  sex offenders after MySpace handed over identity details about  the former members of the Internet social network, the Texas  attorney general's office said on Thursday.
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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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Kevin Poulsen of Wired News has followed several stories this month about MySpace security breaches.  (parent.thesis) blogger Amy Tiemann asks why these reports haven't gotten wider coverage.
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By Terry, Juliet A  CHARLESTON - West Virginia Attorney General Darrell V. McGraw Jr. is the latest in a line of state attorneys general who want operators of MySpace.com to release the names and online identities of registered sex offenders.
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New York officials want sex offenders to provide their Internet identities to the state, which would then share the information with social networking sites like MySpace to protect users from online predators, according to a law proposed Tuesday.
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By THE WASHINGTON POST  Does the name evoke MySpace.com? That's a calculated strategy, right down to the instant messaging, user profile data and thumbnail photos.
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A page on MySpace.com helped police in Alaska nab four people believed responsible for a string of church robberies in Anchorage.
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New York&#39;s attorney general and state legislative leaders presented a bill on Tuesday aimed at protecting people from sexual predators on the Internet, aand Facebook, MySpace, and Yahoo backed the effort.In a press conference, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced legislation they called &quot;groundbreaking&quot; in its proposed restrictions and controls of sexual offenders&#39; online activities.&quot;Today I believe we&#39;re proposing the most comprehensive, smartest, toughest law in the nation to keep people safe online, especially minors,&quot; Cuomo said.The Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators Act (e-STOP) responds to the widely documented use that sexual offenders make of the Internet, in particular social-networking sites, to stalk and victimize people, particularly minors.Specifically, e-STOP would require convicted sex offenders to register their e-mail addresses, instant message screen names, and any other online identifiers with the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. That data would then be made available to social-networking companies and other online services so that they can then block access to sexual offenders and remove them from their sites.The bill also calls for allowing sentencing courts and the state&#39;s Parole Board to restrict the online activities of sex offenders who used the Internet to commit their crimes, victimized a minor, or are considered highly likely to repeat their offenses. In particular, the bill would ban many sex offenders from using social-networking sites.There are more than 627,000 registered sex offenders in the U.S., about 25,000 of whom are in New York, according to Cuomo&#39;s office.State attorneys general have been very vocal about their concerns over online safety, in particular of minors who are preyed upon by sexual offenders on social-networking sites, which are widely used by teens.The attorneys general have often criticized Facebook, MySpace, and other sites for, in their view, not doing enough to protect minors, but the two sides have recently seemed to get on better terms and have rolled out several joint security initiatives, partnerships and agreements.The e-STOP bill is needed to help social-networking companies keep their sites safer and will complement these companies&#39; in-house security efforts, Cuomo said.MySpace Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam agreed and said laws need to keep up with the times and technology. &quot;We hope [e-STOP] becomes a model for other states to follow,&quot; Nigam said.&quot;As Facebook and other Internet companies do our best to exclude [from our sites] those who would do our users harm, we need help from the government,&quot; said Chris Kelly, Facebook&#39;s chief privacy officer.Ideally, legislation like e-STOP would get enacted widely in U.S. states and also at the federal level, Cuomo said.
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By Tatiana Pina; Journal Staff Writer  The police say the man, 21, met his victim, an 11-year-old Providence girl, online.   * * *   PAWTUCKET - They met on MySpace.com. She told him she was 16. He told her he was 17.   They had sex, the police said.
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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.