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NY legislation to target social networking sites

By Michael Rice

My apologies for renewsing this, but I don't have time to look into it right at the moment. However, I do know that a lot of the people I've been meeting over the past week here in Seattle are doing social networking technology. Just because the article refers to Myspace and Facebook doesn't mean you won't get caught up in it.

Thus, you might want to check out this C|Net story. Let me know if you find it interesting and I'll do a little more research on it.

In a press conference on Tuesday, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, State Sen. Joseph Bruno, and Assemblyman Sheldon Silver unveiled details of the Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators Act (E-Stop), a new bill to crack down on the presence of sex offenders on the Internet, specifically on sites where they could get in touch with minors. The legislation aims to restrict convicted sex offenders' Web use, banning them from social networks like Facebook and News Corp.'s MySpace.

The full article is available by clicking here.

Full post as published by Coderights on January 30, 2008 (boomark / email).