Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, will add more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday. The changes include banning convicted sex offenders from the site, limiting older users' ability to search online for subscribers under 18 and building a task force seeking ways to better verify users' ages and identities. Among other changes, Facebook has agreed to:• Ensure companies offering services on its site comply with its safety and privacy guidelines.
• Keep tobacco and alcohol ads from users too young to purchase those products.
• Remove groups whose comments or images suggest they involve incest, pedophilia, bullying or other inappropriate content.
• Send warning messages when a child is in danger of giving personal information to an adult.
• Review users' profiles when they ask to change their age, ensuring the update is legitimate and not intended to let adults masquerade as children.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/08/facebook.safeguards.ap/index.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/08/breaking-facebook-to-announce-safety-and-privacy-deal-with-49-states/
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Great article about Facebook and sexual predators! Now, when is Yahoo going to label their Flickr site as hosting thousands predators and pedophiles, trading hardcore and child porn? They have been nurturing those monsters for over 4 years now, by helping them hide there. How are parents and children supposed to be able to know about it, if they continually lie about what is really hosted on their website? The advertisers sponsoring it all have no idea. There always seems to be a lot of hoopla about Facebook and MySpace, but never a word said about Yahoo's Flickr, which is much worse off. There are countless dangerous creeps there, openly perving on kids, while trading millions of every kind of really nasty image imaginable. Why is that? They have no true, reliable age verification, no warning labels, and more over, always cloak any perverts through algorithms. Flickr's entire system is set up to enshroud the true nature of the site and the offenders there. There are thousands of predators and pedophiles being harbored by Flickr, the average users just aren't allowed to see them. Those dangerous sexual stalkers can see everybody else though, right down to geolocations placed on kids' pictures. It's like a huge catalog for repeating sex offenders who collect pics of kids like trophies. Facebook just opened up its users' personal info on profiles to people on Yahoo networks, including Flickr. That pretty much undoes any and all efforts to protect kids there mentioned so far. Pointless.
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