Well after the recent news about 90,000 sexual predators being removed from MySpace (before the Task Force issued their Report, MySpace only admitted to removing 25,000) and the most recent sexual predator sex ring bust on Facebook that involved 31 students and an 18 year old man, I can’t help but reiterate our position that [...]
It’s been a few weeks since the Internet Safety Technical Task Force released its Final Report and the media coverage keeps coming. It’s no secret that IDology had some comments/objections with the Final Report which apparently from this article in the Wall Street Journal so did the Attorneys General. You might also want [...]
On December 17, 2008 we submitted a supplemental Member Statement to the Internet Safety Technical Task Force’s Final Report. The report was delivered to the Attorneys General on December 23 and made public today. The final report was not a consensus document and the Member Statements served as an avenue for us to state our [...]
We had the kick-off meeting for the Internet Safety Technical Task Force this week. As I expected, there are a lot of differing opinions of the committee members. It should be an interesting year to watch how things progress.
I believe the key to progress is being able to listen and keeping an [...]
Today’s press release out of North Carolina Attorney General’s Office Roy Cooper is a big deal. Here’s the first paragraph:
In a victory for social networking safety, Attorney General Roy Cooper and 49 other attorneys general today announced that MySpace has agreed to significant steps to better protect children on its web site, including creating [...]
I’m sure by now you’ve seen the news that the co-founder of MySpace has been caught faking his age on his MySpace profile. Quite ironic given the age verification issues social networks are facing these days. But now seems as good a time as any to say that age and identity verification doesn’t [...]
Another social networking site is starting to take some heat from law enforcement in its ability to keep sexual predators off its site. The New York Times reports that Facebook, which has positioned itself as the safe social-networking alternative because it takes greater lengths than other social networks to keep adults and under-age users [...]
Atlanta’s Star94 held an interview with NBC Dateline’s Chris Hansen yesterday morning which was really interesting. Last night another episode in his series To Catch a Predator aired where the focus was on predators in New Jersey.
During the interview Hansen gave some statistics from the show. Since the series began 3 years ago, 286 [...]
