Your Space, My Space, Everybody's Space

Your Space, My Space, Everybody's Space
Mark Rasch, 2007-05-23

It has recently been reported that Attorney’s General’s from about a dozen U.S. States, including Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Mississippi, Maryland, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania have demanded that News Corporation’s social networking site MySpace voluntarily deliver to the AG’s a list of all sex offenders who have registered for or used the MySpace social networking service.

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Lovely doublespead 2007-05-23
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Your Space, My Space, Everybody's Space 2007-05-23
Anonymous (2 replies)

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Your Space, My Space, Everybody's Space 2007-05-23
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Your Space, My Space, Everybody's Space 2007-05-24
Anonymous (1 replies)

I applaud MySpace for sticking to their guns and not being bullied by the AGs. I think the AGs prove the point by acting they way they did when MySpace simply asked them to follow the appropriate process.

As for privacy law:

". . .the provider reasonably believes that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person justifies disclosure of the information;"

Maintaining a website doesn't create an immediate danger of death or physical injury. For that you actually need to walk out your door and go meet somebody. That's a parenting issue not a MySpace issue. Maybe the AGs should spend a little time on that subject.

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