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29,000 Registered Sex Offenders Found
on MySpace
According to a recent Associated Press article,
MySpace.com has found more than 29,000
registered sex offenders with profiles
on the popular social networking Web site.
This number is more than four times the
number cited by the company two months
ago, North Carolina officials said Tuesday.
A North Carolina attorney, Roy Cooper,
is one of several attorneys general who
recently demanded the News Corp.-owned
Web site provide data on how many registered
sex offenders were using the site, along
with information about where they live.
MySpace, citing federal privacy laws, initially
withheld the information. After the states
filed formal legal requests, MySpace began
sharing the information in May.
At the time, MySpace said it had already
used a database it helped create to remove
about 7,000 profiles of sex offenders,
out of a total of about 180 million profiles
on the site.
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- Creating Internet social networking
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