I’m sure by now you’ve seen the news that the co-founder of MySpace has been caught faking his age on his MySpace profile. Quite ironic given the age verification issues social networks are facing these days. But now seems as good a time as any to say that age and identity verification doesn’t […]
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the Attorneys Generals of all 50 States have joined forces to pressure social networking sites to require greater parental controls and age verification tools so that minors can’t access the sites so easily.
Here’s what Blumenthal had to say:
“These sites say they want to cooperate, but they have resisted […]
Another social networking site is starting to take some heat from law enforcement in its ability to keep sexual predators off its site. The New York Times reports that Facebook, which has positioned itself as the safe social-networking alternative because it takes greater lengths than other social networks to keep adults and under-age users […]
Atlanta’s Star94 held an interview with NBC Dateline’s Chris Hansen yesterday morning which was really interesting. Last night another episode in his series To Catch a Predator aired where the focus was on predators in New Jersey.
During the interview Hansen gave some statistics from the show. Since the series began 3 years ago, 286 […]
Those of you not reading Harry Potter this weekend might want to check out Terri Cullen’s book “The Wall Street Journal’s Complete Identity Theft Guidebook: How to Protect Yourself from the Most Pervasive Crime in America.”
Terri is the WSJ’s personal finance columnist. If you read the paper yesterday you might have seen her piece […]
Amy Tiemann has a blog post on CNET titled Online Safety Needs to Go Beyond “Don’t Talk to Strangers.” The focus of the post is on an Internet Prevention Messages research study to explore the odds for online interpersonal victimization (i.e. unwanted sexual solicitation or harassment) of youth ages 10-17 published in the February […]
A sexual predator in Connecticut that used MySpace to meet his 12-15 year old female victims is going to jail for 20 years, according to this television news source. While this might not be the first incidence of a sexual predator linked to a social networking site being sentenced, it is the first I’ve […]
Have you heard about the latest scam from the bad guys? It appears they too have learned how much impact marketing has on a “business” and purchased some keywords for Google and Yahoo ads. This article by Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz of USA Today explains it well and will bring you up […]
March has been an interesting month for age verification.
First, the conversations for using age verification in social networks are moving forward (and heating up!). In fact, last week IDology participated as a panelist in a congressional forum discussing age verification. This article, despite its headline, does a good job of summing […]
If you’ve been following the age verification within social networking sites issue, it should come as no surprise that Connecticut has proposed legislation requiring
“MySpace and other social networking sites to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent before minors can post profiles.”
And like this article says, other states are considering legislation as well […]
