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Tuesday December 5, 2006 4:43 pm
MySpace to Adopt Sentinel Safe to Stop Teen Predators
My Space has continuously gotten criticism for being a gathering place for teen sexual predators. Today they announced that they are partnering with Sentinel Tech Holding in order to build a database containing names, physical descriptions, and other identifiable characteristics of sex offenders in the United States.
This database will be known as Sentinel Safe which Hemanshu Nigam, MySpace’s chief security officer, said “will allow us to aggregate all publicly available sex offender databases into a real-time searchable form, making it easy to cross-reference and remove known registered sex offenders from the MySpace community.”
While we applaud MySpace for finally taking charge of the situation, we also believe that step one is communicating with your teens on the basic rules of posting on the Internet.
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| USA Today
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