February 1, 2007

Lawmakers take aim at online predators (AP via Yahoo! News)

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By Bob Dyer, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Jan. 30–Regular users of MySpace may have noticed numerous changes during the last five days.MySpace Teenagers Are Getting Message: Pages Change After Story (RedNova)

Four families are filing a lawsuit against News Corporation, which runs MySpace.com. The families say their underage daughters were sexually abused by adults who they had met on the social internet site.MySpace under fire (KVBC Las Vegas)

Three teenage boys in California were arrested for spray-painting a wall after authorities found pictures of the graffiti on the social networking website MySpace.com.Police find teenagers’ graffiti on MySpace (Guardian Unlimited)

News Corp.’s popular Web network MySpace, criticized for not doing enough to protect young people on its site from sexual predators, said on Monday it opened access to its database of U.S. sex offenders to a center that tracks missing children.MySpace opens sex offender list to missing kids group (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

NEW YORK (AP) - The popular online hangout MySpace said Tuesday 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.MySpace to Develop Database to Help Block Sex Offenders (NBC 24 Toledo)

MySpace will begin distributing Amber Alerts via their social-networking Web site on Tuesday Jan. 30. The alerts will be posted at the top of profiles in a small text box that can be clicked on for more information about the child and suspect. Amber alerts are activated by the police, and notifications will be sent to any user on MySpace with a profile in the given zip-code that the alert …Myspace begins notifying members of missing children (Daily Vidette)

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