SEL: MySpace Asked to Provide Sex Offender List to North Carolina AG

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May 15, 2007

MySpace Asked to Provide Sex Offender List to North Carolina AG

And the file was too large to transmit via email. Just kidding.

Roy Cooper, North Carolina’s attorney general, has requested names of registered sex offenders from the social networking site. Cooper, signed this request along with attorneys general from Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

While MySpace hasn’t agreed or disagreed to provide this, I seriously hope they will comply without incident. They have taken a few steps already:

In December, MySpace announced it was partnering with Sentinel Tech Holding Corp. to build a database with information on sex offenders in the United States. Software to identify and remove sex offenders from the site was launched in early May, MySpace officials said Monday in a statement.

But it brings up an interesting question, how do they actually retrieve this data?

It takes absolutely no time for me to set up a MySpace profile from places outside of my home (work, wireless access at Starbucks, etc.). Nothing would prevent me from using fictitious names and other information. So how do they know that the list is complete?

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