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MySpace, Attorneys General Target Online Predators With New Security GuidelinesOn Monday (January 14), the attorneys general from New Jersey, North Carolina, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York announced that they'd reached an agreement with MySpace for the site to initiate new security measures designed to protect its young users from potential sexual predators. Born of this joint effort, according to a MySpace press release, was the Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking Sites Safety, which was created for industrywide adoption, but there's been no word yet on whether similar social-networking sites, including Facebook and Friendster, will follow suit. As part of the partnership, MySpace will introduce a number of protections and participate in a working group to develop new technologies, including better ways to verify the ages of its users. "The Internet can be a dangerous place for children and young adults, with sexual predators surfing social-networking sites in search of potential victims and cyber-bullies sending threatening and anonymous messages," said New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram, who was one of six officials representing legal authorities from 49 states and the District of Columbia. The "Principles of Social Networking" are broken down into four categories: Site Design and Functionality, which includes defaulting 16- and 17-year-old users' profiles to private and strengthening the technology that enforces the site's minimum age of 14; Education and Tools for Parents, Educators and Children, including free parental software currently under development and the establishment of a children's e-mail registry, empowering parents to prevent their kids from having access to MySpace or other social-networking sites; Law Enforcement Cooperation, which calls for the creation of a 24-hour hot line, among other changes; and Online Safety Task Force, which MySpace will organize to develop online safety tools, review identity-authentication tools, and explore new technologies that may help ensure users are more safe and secure. "We thank the attorneys general for a thoughtful and constructive conversation on Internet safety," MySpace's chief security officer, Hemanshu Nigam, said. "This is an industrywide challenge, and we must all work together to create a safer Internet. The Principles we have adopted set forth what the industry needs to strive towards to provide a safer online experience for teens, and we look forward to sharing our ongoing safety innovations with other companies." MySpace also plans to create a high school section on the site, for users 18 and younger, and vows to respond within 72 hours to complaints about inappropriate content. The site will also devote more staffers and resources to classifying photographs and facilitating discussion groups. The site announced similar measures in June 2006, just days after a 14-year-old girl filed a $30 million lawsuit in Texas against MySpace and its parent company, News Corp., claiming she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met on MySpace. The suit alleges that the site has "absolutely no meaningful protections or security measures to protect underage users." And earlier that month, a 16-year-old girl tricked her parents into getting her a passport so she could fly to the Mideast and marry a 20-year-old man she met through MySpace. U.S. officials in Jordan persuaded the teen to turn around and go home before the arranged marriage took place. |
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