Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET SAFETY’

Legalnewsline.com/Keith Loria

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on Thursday that he has started a newinitiative to help social networking sites keep child pornography off of the Internet.  Theinitiative uses a database containing hash values, considered to be digital fingerprints in theInternet world, that will be made available to social networking sites.  Over 8,000 childpornography images hash tags have been collected by Cuomo’s office.  Both Facebook and MySpacehave already signed up to use the database to help stop child porn and Cuomo has urged other major sites to come

tgdaily.com/Emma Woollacott

New York’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says graphic porn involving children possibly as young as five was on social networking site tagged.com for two months after it was reported to the site’s administrators.  In an undercover investigation Cuomo’s office uncovered numerous graphic images of children being sexually abused, inappropriate sexual communications between adults and minors, and content advocating pedophilia.  Tagged’s blatant disregard for our children’s safety is completely unacceptable  Social networking sites that allow predators to exploit and potentially access our most vulnerable must be held accountable, said Laura

wicz.com

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo today announced that more than 3,500 registeredNew York State sex offenders have been purged from social networking sites Facebook and MySpace inthe first database sweep since the state’s new Electronic Securing and Targeting of OnlinePredators Act (e-STOP) went into effect.  Under e-STOP – the nation’s most comprehensive lawto enhance protections from sexual predators on the Internet – many sexual predators are bannedoutright from using social networking sites on the Internet while on probation or parole. Also, convicted sex offenders must register all of their e-mail addresses, screen

Daily News/Kenneth Lovett

In a major crackdown on Internet predators, more than 3,500 convicted New York sex offendershave been kicked off Facebook and MySpace, two online social networking sites.  This is thefirst sweep of registered sex offenders under the Electronic Security and Targeting of OnlinePredators Act (e-STOP), a 2008 law Attorney General Andrew Cuomo aggressively pushed.  LauraAhearn, executive director of Parents for Megan’s Law and the Crime Victims Center, said the factthousands of offenders were dumped proves the law is working.  Before e-STOP sexual predatorsfreely lurked in social networking sites

About 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from the social networking web siteMySpace.  The number was nearly double what MySpace officials estimated last year. MySpace and Facebook implemented dozens of safeguards, including limiting the ability of olderusers to search members younger than 18.

(Raleigh, North Carolina)

Newsday/Juliann Vachon

Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook can now trace and expel potentialsexual predators under a new law requiring sex offenders to submit all identifying Internetinformation along with home address.  Under the law, signed yesterday by President George W.Bush, registered sex offenders must submit all email addresses, instant messenger names or otheronline identifiers for inclusion into the National Sex Offender Registry.
(Washington)