Throughout this semester, one of the concerns from the members of the class was Internet safety. On the New York Times online, I found an article that illustrates a specific way that the popular website, Myspace, is trying to keep children safe. The article "MySpace Gives Details of Its Plan to Reveal Known Sex Offenders" by Louise Story, describes the corporations idea to reveal th eidentity of sex offenders on Myspace. The corporation is willing to work with state attorneys to keep kids safe. Story states," MySpace, a division of the , said it would release information about its members as long as it was able to comply with the Electronic Communications Privacy Act." Furthermore, the chief security officer of Myspace, Hemanshu Nigam, "said in an interview that the site had already taken down the profiles of thousands of sex offenders since the beginning of May when it began running its own database check."
Many of us are concerned with Internet safety, but it seems that the incresing popularity of sites, like myspace, is increasing security. Check out the article!http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/technology/16myspace.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin