From the New York Times,
“MySpace Turns Over 90,000 Names of Registered Sex Offenders.” by Jenna Wortham.
MySpace provided two state attorneys general the names of 90,000 registered sex offenders it had banned from its site in response to a subpoena.
The figure is 40,000 more than the amount previously acknowledged by MySpace, according to Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut . . .
this is frightening…
Yup. 700,000 registered sex offenders in the USA. Guess how many are online. Guess how many parents monitor their children’s Internet use.
Just off the wires:
“But where did all of those sex offenders go? Some evidence suggests that a portion of them are now on Facebook.
John Cardillo is a former New York City police officer and the CEO of Sentinel, a security technology firm based in Miami which helps MySpace, Bebo, MyYearbook, WePlay, and other social networks identify sex offenders. He goes so far as to call Facebook a “safe haven” for sex offenders.
Cardillo took the 90,000 sex offenders who were removed from MySpace and started looking for them on Facebook. He says:
‘We found over 8,000 offenders on their site without much effort. My professional opinion is that the real number is 15 to 20 times that.’”
Source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/03/thousands-of-myspace-sex-offender-refugees-found-on-facebook/
…scary.
Got to be careful!