Bill on parental consent for MySpace advances:
North Carolina is slowly starting to turn into New Jersey as far as over-regulation is concerned.
RALEIGH - Children under 18 would have to get parental consent to join MySpace.com and other social networking Web sites under a bill approved today by a state Senate appropriations committee.
N.C. Attorney General […]
MySpace hands over known sex offenders; how many unknown?:
One of the problems I’ve had with all the blustering from state attorney generals about MySpace is what are the AG’s doing about the predators that haven’t been caught yet? I never see anyone in the American media asking that question yet the Australian media has no […]
Wired has a copy of the MySpace e-mail sent to alleged sex offenders.
Marketplace is reporting that MySpace’s recent purge of 7,000 sex offenders didn’t get them all.
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MySpace in deal with 8 state attorneys general:
If you haven’t heard by now MySpace has acquiesced to the 8 state attorney generals asking for all the information MySpace has on each state’s sex offenders. Now don’t get me wrong, I have no interest in protecting SO’s. However I do have a problem with politicians putting […]
MySpace won’t release list of sex offenders to states:
In a follow up to my post about 8 attorney generals who have demanded that MySpace give up all their information about sex offenders using their site, MySpace has flatly denied the request.
MySpace’s chief security officer said the company regularly discloses information to law enforcement officials but […]
8 States Seek Sex Offender Data From MySpace:
Attorney General’s from eight states, including North Carolina’s Roy Cooper and Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal, sent what I’m sure is a strongly worded letter to MySpace demanding they turn over sex offender information.
In a letter, the attorneys general asked MySpace to provide information on how many registered sex offenders […]
California eyes stronger cyberstalking laws:
California is looking to strengthen it’s cyberstalking laws after a wave of harassment has taken place on craigslist. In one such incident a 17-year-old girl’s picture and phone number were posted on craigslist with an ad stating that people should call if they’re interested in a good time.
The proposed bill […]
Suspects Profiled On MySpace:
The famous Fort Smith Arkansas Police, who tried using MySpace to catch a bank robber, are at it again. This time they’re using their MySpace to try and catch another criminal.
The link now features a picture and description of 27-year-old Kevin Ta, a.k.a. Thinh Ngoc Ta, a former Fort Smith resident suspected […]
Netting predators:
Add California to the list of states who are drafting meaningless legislation concerning MySpace and sex offenders.
The proposal calls for California to require registered sex offenders to report their e-mail addresses and Internet identities to the state, which would make them available to MySpace and other social networks to block participation.
“It is not […]
City officials respond to fired police officer’s appeal:
When we last left our story fired Lexington, Kentucky police officer Joshua Cromer was appealing his termination from the Lexington PD. If you recall Cromer was fired for inappropriate use of his MySpace concerning the drunk driving arrest of country singer John Michael Montgomery.
Cromer appealed the city […]
MySpace and Kentucky Sex Offenders:
Put Kentucky down as another state that is deluded into thinking that sex offenders are going to comply with registering their online identities.
Tuesday afternoon at the capital rotunda, the state met with a MySpace official to put an end to this ongoing problem with the help of a new measure called […]
Legal experts absolve craigslist on sex ads:
A fancy lawyerin’ type person says that craigslist is not responsible for their ads for illegal stuff like drugs and prostitution.
In the wake of an FBI raid on the home of a Sacramento photographer for allegedly posting photos of underage prostitutes on craigslist, experts said the huge online classified […]
MySpace appeal for missing man:Police in Scotland are using MySpace in hopes of finding a missing person.
Adam Alexander, from Errol in Perthshire, has not been seen since he failed to show up for an appointment at his home in November 1999.
Police said his disappearance was out of character and remains a mystery. Detectives re-investigating the […]
MySpace policing fake cop sites:
MySpace does, that’s who.
It seems that MySpace is going to be cracking down on the fake police MySpaces. 6 out of 16 law enforcement MySpaces were fakes.
The fake ones claimed to belong to the NYPD, the Fairfax County Police, the NJ State Troopers, and the Coral Gables Police Department […]
Fired Lexington police officer files appeal to be reinstated:
Just when you thought it was over, the semi-scandal of the Lexington Kentucky Police Department rears it’s ugly head.
The recently fired Joshua Cromer has filed an appeal to have his job reinstated.
Superiors in the police department argued Cromer’s credibility and his ability to effectively do […]
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