MySpace: new measures against sexual predators
January 15th, 2008
Yesterday Myspace announced a deal with 49 state attorneys general and Washington D.C. to protect minors from sexual predators. The deal :
- Allow parents to submit a child’s email addresses to MySpace to prevent anyone from misusing the addresses to set up profiles.
- Make the default setting “private†for 16- and 17-year-old users so they cannot be viewed by adults they don’t already know.
- Respond within 72 hours to complaints about inappropriate content and devote more staff and resources to classify photographs and discussion groups.
- Strengthen software against underage users.
- Create a high school section for users under 18 years old.
You would expect such a deal to be in place much earlier. Facebook, Bebo, Hi5 and Orkut still don’t have such measures in place. As I understand Facebook and Bebo only look at multimedia which are reported by users. Although Facebook claims that complaints are a very effective way of working with such problems.
I like Myspace’s dedication to make a difference, read this on Techcrunch:
“MySpace helped develop and fund a database of registered sex offenders and deletes the accounts of members who are registered sex offenders.”
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Tags: MySpace, Sexual Predators, Facebook, Bebo,
January 15th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Just to add to the mix, in a recent survey ‘Computing Which?’ found bebo to be the safest social network:
http://www.kwiqq.com/blog/?p=189
January 15th, 2008 at 7:27 am
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