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Monday, 05 May 2008 14:27 |
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Social networking site MySpace has agreed to take steps to help protect child users from online sexual predators.
The US-based site has agreed a deal with 49 US states that will see it establish a taskforce of industry professionals and look for better ways to verify users' ages.
Under the pact with US state attorneys, MySpace agreed to develop safety enhancements that include letting parents submit children's e-mail addresses to prevent profiles from being created using them, and to respond within 72 hours to complaints of inappropriate content.
Also under the agreement, profiles for users under age 16 will be set to private so no strangers can get information from their profile; users can block anyone over 18 from contacting them; and people over 18 cannot add anyone under 16 as a friend in their network unless they have their last name or their e-mail address.
MySpace, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, has more than 200 million registered users worldwide, and social networking rival Facebook claims more than 61 million active users.
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