MySpace: new measures against sexual predators [kwiqq]

Posted on | January 15, 2008 | 4 Comments

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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