MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking Web site, more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago. more...
INTERNET SAFETY
INTERNET SAFETY
Last week, 29,000 registered sex offenders were identified and removed from MySpace. And this week, the Connecticut attorney general said he was looking into a few cases of convicted sex more...
Attorney general Alberto Gonzales announced a new public service campaign yesterday that will warn teenage girls against posting information on the Internet that could put them at risk of attack more...
Governor Pataki's office announced yesterday that the Guardian Angels will get a state grant of $200,000 to teach children across the state about the dangers of communicating with online more...
Nassau and Suffolk police say the case of a Massachusetts teenager allegedly being held against her will and sexually assaulted by people she met online is the most extreme they have seen on Long more...
President Bush signed into law legislation to create a new "dot-kids" domain on the Internet yesterday. He said, "Every site designated "dot-kids" will be a safe zone for children. We must give more...
Canada's government introduced a bill to make it a crime to surf for child pornography on the Internet. Accessing child pornography would carry a penalty of up to five years in prison. The bill more...
Two weeks after a Massachusetts girl was allegedly kidnapped and tortured by a Long Island couple, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed providing $25 million in federal funding that would help more...
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About 35 computer security experts and high-tech professionals in Australia have formed a virtual neighborhood watch, policing the World Wide Web for sites peddling child more...
Marcus Lawson is a US Customs Service agent and on this particular day his role will be a 32-year-old mother who is married with two kids. He will be calling himself "Fastgirl." Someone called more...