MySpace teams to create sex-offender database

MySpace teams to create sex-offender database
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-12-05

Social networking site MySpace announced on Tuesday that the company has paired up with ID verification firm Sentinel Tech Holding to build a national database of convicted sex offenders, a technology the service hopes will enable it to keep predators out of its community.

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MySpace teams to create sex-offender database 2006-12-06
Anonymous (2 replies)

Clearly this has no chance of working unless sex offenders have to register every e-mail address. For that to work, of course, every company that gives out e-mail addresses would have to require identification and that's something that will never happen. It would also require MySpace itself to requi...

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Re: MySpace teams to create sex-offender database 2006-12-08
Just a thought (1 replies)

I think the email solution won't work. I mean, it's a start and protecting children is definately a priority. But I am sure that there are tons of perverted men on myspace and not even a fraction of them have been convicted. So to prevent a convicted sex offender from using myspace is a smart thi...

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Re: Re: MySpace teams to create sex-offender database 2007-05-16
Anonymous

You said...

"...Flag personal emails that contain sexual contents. (Meaning, if someone is talking sexual, capture there username and analyze/track there inbox on myspace. See if that user is also talking sexual with other users. ect... More than likely, it's a predator (a predator does not alway...

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Re: MySpace teams to create sex-offender database 2007-08-16
Anonymous

I totally agree with this being said! I am a registered sex offender and I am a regular person. I was 19 and the girl was 15 that I am convicted of. 4 yrs age difference! I'm 32 now and shes 28! Does this seem wrong??? Never-the-less I have 2 children and career and my myspace page has been deleted ...

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MySpace teams to create sex-offender database 2006-12-06
Anonymous

OK a national law for perverts to submit their email address to a database? NOW COME ON, HONESTLY ARE YOU REALLY THINKING ABOUT PROTECTING KIDS LIKE THAT?!?

what next? filing a lawsuit against your ISP because since you were on the Internet, you were exposed to these sorts of people? Maybe large ...

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MySpace teams to create sex-offender database 2006-12-07
Anonymous (1 replies)

But. What about international users?...

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Re: MySpace teams to create sex-offender database 2006-12-18
Anonymous

This is the stupidest idea i've ever heard of. Most of the 550,000 have paid thier debt to society over a single offense and should have a chance to move on. If this new Sentinel Safe system(if it even works) flags a profile, some due process should be given...maybe it can be an initial flag to lo...

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MySpace teams to create sex-offender database 2006-12-19
TRUTH

Why would anyone who wants to bring peace and happiness to earth, wish their personal pain on the rest of the world forever? For the money!

Politicians and Law Enforcement with the help of victims advocate groups has lied to the public.

The reason victim?s advocates continue their style of activit...

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MySpace teams to create sex-offender database 2007-02-21
Anonymous (2 replies)

I am currently one of those "convicted sex offenders." I was accused of something very stupid and I did my sentence. Through it all, I lost my wife, my kids, and my career. Because of an idiotic technicality, I am listed for life which probably means about 45-50 years for me. Countless research ...

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Re: MySpace teams to create sex-offender database 2007-04-08
Anonymous

Yes, Me too is a convicted sex offender, due to a 10 yr old inncodent with a married female.She saved her marriage at my exspense.How can they track your email, with yahoo, msn, aim,, you could have numerouse e mails, how would they know?

yes i agree, they should track sexual emails and older to yo...

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Re: MySpace teams to create sex-offender database 2007-05-31
Anonymous

that is so true . if parents would watch there kids more and stop leaveing them to be latch key kids they would be more protected ... protection begings at HOME!!!!!!!!!but parents r to busy to watch over there kids.. they want other people to do it for them.. and when the kid gets in trouble they n...

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MySpace teams to create sex-offender database 2007-05-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

This is now a reality. I know of at least one person whose profile has already been deleted from MySpace despite the fact that the incident in question occurred over ten years ago when he was a young boy. Nine times out of ten I find the ACLU to be too liberal and I seldom am fully on board with t...

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Re: MySpace teams to create sex-offender database 2008-12-02
Anonymous

if sentinal can track your ip adress then link it to the offender then presto got ya pervert....

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MySpace teams to create sex-offender database 2008-05-28
Anonymous

Yeah, but that database isn't going to stop the ones who can create bogus accounts on yahoo and hotmail and all those other free email web sites. I know there are a bunch of them that hide behind a fake name and still get on myspace.com. It isn't hard to do....

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