Thursday, December 21, 2006
MySpace's New Sheriff
There are 550,000 registered sexual predators in the U.S. It's Hemanshu Nigam's job to catch them.
Nigam is the former head of Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) consumer and child security divisions. In May, he took a similar but much more public position at News Corp.'s (nyse: NWS - news - people ) MySpace, the overwhelmingly popular online hangout. His biggest responsibilities: keeping sexual predators off the site and helping his bosses convince the rest of the world that he's doing a good job.
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Nigam is the former head of Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) consumer and child security divisions. In May, he took a similar but much more public position at News Corp.'s (nyse: NWS - news - people ) MySpace, the overwhelmingly popular online hangout. His biggest responsibilities: keeping sexual predators off the site and helping his bosses convince the rest of the world that he's doing a good job.
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Thursday, December 14, 2006
MySpace building sex offender database
MySpace, the popular online hangout that has drawn complaints about sexual predators and other dangers to teens, said Tuesday it will develop technologies to help block convicted sex offenders.
MySpace is partnering with Sentinel Tech Holding Corp. to build a database containing names, physical descriptions and other identifiable details on sex offenders in the United States.
The News Corp. site, however, stopped short of adopting Sentinel's technology for verifying the ages and identities of its users.
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MySpace is partnering with Sentinel Tech Holding Corp. to build a database containing names, physical descriptions and other identifiable details on sex offenders in the United States.
The News Corp. site, however, stopped short of adopting Sentinel's technology for verifying the ages and identities of its users.
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Friday, December 08, 2006
Teens Tell Why MySpace Is So Loved
A documentary by the teens tries to answer a question burning in parental brains: Why does my kid care so much about MySpace?
The short film, made by members of the Sunnyside Teen Council, will premiere tonight at Terronez Middle School. There will also be a panel discussion including two of the filmmakers, a library official and a school official.
The teens who made the documentary, which is less than 10 minutes long, wanted to explain to adults why MySpace is so popular.
They know adults read reports of abuses of the site, including accounts of predators and lurid teen content.
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The short film, made by members of the Sunnyside Teen Council, will premiere tonight at Terronez Middle School. There will also be a panel discussion including two of the filmmakers, a library official and a school official.
The teens who made the documentary, which is less than 10 minutes long, wanted to explain to adults why MySpace is so popular.
They know adults read reports of abuses of the site, including accounts of predators and lurid teen content.
READ MORE
Friday, December 01, 2006
Fox 31 Investigates Brutal Rapist's MySpace Page
Fox 31 News has learned that someone claiming to be Brent Brents – one of the most violent sexual predators ever arrested in the Denver area – has a personal page on the popular website MySpace.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Safegaurding Children on the Internet Outlined
It is a startling statistic: about 70 percent of worldwide Internet use is pornography. Only 30 percent is non-sexual commerce.
Sergeant Chris Dobratz - of the Hutchinson Police Department and Minnesota Internet Crimes Against Children task force - used this statistic during his public presentation on Internet safety at the school auditorium last week.
Dobratz explained that dangers exist amidst online chat rooms, MySpace-type personal web pages, YouTube-type video broadcasting sites, e-mail and instant messages, and phone text messages. And in these contemporary digital communities, tangled webs of deception can be woven by lurking predators posing as females, prospective boyfriends, teenagers, or trusted confidants, when they are not.
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Sergeant Chris Dobratz - of the Hutchinson Police Department and Minnesota Internet Crimes Against Children task force - used this statistic during his public presentation on Internet safety at the school auditorium last week.
Dobratz explained that dangers exist amidst online chat rooms, MySpace-type personal web pages, YouTube-type video broadcasting sites, e-mail and instant messages, and phone text messages. And in these contemporary digital communities, tangled webs of deception can be woven by lurking predators posing as females, prospective boyfriends, teenagers, or trusted confidants, when they are not.
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