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90,000 Sex Offenders Booted from MySpace? Truth or Fiction?

Courtesy of Smashed Frog Blog 02/03/2009 Oh, I'd say the AGs are getting a bit nervous since the release of the Berkman Center report, Enhancing Child Safety & Online Technologies. As always, there's a bit more to the 90,000 sex offenders story than is being reported. Via Computerworld: Just two weeks after a task force whose formation was spearheaded by MySpace delivered (and sanctioned by 49 attorneys generals) a report saying that social networking sites were safer from sexual predators than many people had assumed, MySpace finds itself dealing with a new inquiry related to registered sex offenders by Connecticut's attorney general. In addition, a private investigator doing work for a Hong Kong-based company involved in a legal dispute with MySpace is claiming that potentially thousands of pages on the social networking site were set up by sex offenders, based on a data-matching search he conducted...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 04, 2009 (boomark / email).