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29,000 Registered Sex Offenders Found on MySpace
According to a recent Associated Press article, MySpace.com
has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles
on the popular social networking Web site. This number is more
than four times the number cited by the company two months ago,
North Carolina officials said Tuesday.
A North Carolina attorney, Roy Cooper, is one of several attorneys
general who recently demanded the News Corp.-owned Web site provide
data on how many registered sex offenders were using the site,
along with information about where they live. MySpace, citing
federal privacy laws, initially withheld the information. After
the states filed formal legal requests, MySpace began sharing
the information in May.
At the time, MySpace said it had already used a database it
helped create to remove about 7,000 profiles of sex offenders,
out of a total of about 180 million profiles on the site.
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