MySpace Using Technology to Ban Predators
Its about time. But I fear that this technology will only weed out the sex offenders that are honest about their real names and locations. Otherwise, using false credentials and anonymous email addresses will be quickly adopted by the perverts.
From Forbes here:
MySpace said Tuesday it will develop technologies to help block convicted sex offenders.
MySpace is partnering with Sentinel Tech Holding Corp. to build a database containing names, physical descriptions and other identifiable details on sex offenders in the United States. The News Corp. site, however, stopped short of adopting Sentinel’s technology for verifying the ages and identities of its users.
The database, to be called Sentinel Safe, “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,” Hemanshu Nigam, MySpace’s chief security officer, said in a statement.
If your kid absolutely must use Myspace, I suggest that you train your child to remain anonymous on the site. This includes falsifying a name, location, and other identifiable data. Make sure the children know not to post any photos of themselves and to report any suspicious activity, such as solicitations from strangers for photos to you and to the Myspace administrators.
