Media News - Friday, May 09, 2008
Facebook, 49 U.S. states, agree on Web safety steps
Social networking site Facebook announced an agreement on Thursday with 49 U.S. state attorneys general and the District of Columbia to increase efforts to protect its youngest members from sexual predators. The additional safety measures follow a similar agreement in January with larger rival MySpace. Facebook said it would focus on improving the technology it employs to weed out inappropriate online behaviour, and to make it tougher for adults to make friends with minors. Both the Facebook and MySpace agreements came in response to calls last year from the attorneys general to improve online safeguards. The millions of youngsters who share everything from music tastes to intimate details of their lives online have turned social networks into veritable hunting grounds for sexual predators. Without checks, an adult can pose as a minor and lure a child into parting with information. The website is now taking several steps to ensure safety, including ‘age-locking’ of profiles of under-18 members, Facebook said. Another safety feature sends automatic warning messages when a child is at risk of revealing personal information to an unknown adult. Facebook also said it would immediately remove user groups dedicated to incest, paedophilia and cyber-bullying, and remove links to pornographic materials from its website. (Reuters)
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