MySpace.com sued, plans to further bolster security measures

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June 21st, 2006 Leave a comment Visited 43 times, 3 so far today

MySpace.com sued, plans to further bolster security measures

MySpace.com is one of the fastest growing internet communities and one of the most popular social networking portals around. The company has said that they will bolster protection for minors after they are continuing to receive more problems.

MySpace.com has in fact being sued by a teenage girl who claims that the website resulted in her getting sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met on the site.

MySpace plans to make it compulsory for members over 18 years old to know the e-mail or first and last name of any 14- to 15-year-old member, if they want to contact them through the service. In addition, the members on this network would also be able to choose to hide their online profiles from strangers.

Hemanshu Nigam, chief security officer of Fox Interactive Media spoke about these new initiatives: “We’re going to build a foundation of safety and security so that social networking is a safe place and a well-lit community.”





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    Elizabeth
    February 20th, 2007 at 10:25 am

    It is the parents responsibilty to keep an eye on there children while on the internet. Everyone knows that there are predators out there and it is there responsibility to protect there children and to teach them what not to do when they meet people on the net! My space does their part in protecting its members and it is not there fault that the parents are not doing their job!

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