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MySpace to Share Sex Offender Data With U.S. Center

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Posted on Jan 29, 2007

Internet social network MySpace has developed a sophisticated national database of sex offenders it uses to police memberships and protect users, many of them minors. On Monday, the company announced it would share the information with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in an effort to aid law enforcement.

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MySpace struck a partnership with Sentinel in December to create the database and has been using it to identify, block or delete the accounts of known sex predators on its service, company executives said.

The database includes photo-matching software tools that can help authorities cross-reference photos or descriptions of predators against registered offenders, especially those who have failed to keep their registration up to date.

About 100,000 of the 600,000 offenders are so-called “non-compliant” cases, NCMEC’s Allen said, making them difficult to track. A national database with the cooperation of authorities and businesses that operate online communities could help, he said.

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By Quy Tran, January 30, 2007 at 4:37 pm #
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Could you believe them ? or they might use all young kids’information for their benefits ?

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By Lefty, January 30, 2007 at 2:53 am #
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Oh “snap!”

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