My Space To Share Data

[JLB]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/technology/22myspace.html

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21 — MySpace and the 50 state attorneys general appear to have made peace.

In a statement released Monday, MySpace, the popular social networking site, said it had agreed to hand over to the states the names, addresses and online profiles of thousands of known convicted sex offenders who have opened up accounts on the service.

The company also said it had deleted the online profiles of 7,000 convicted sexual predators, whose names were flagged through the cross-matching of its membership rolls with a database of registered sex offenders maintained by Sentinel Tech Holding.

[Woody]

That's good shit, man. People abuse myspace and use it for purposes it wasn't intended for. :niterider

[JLB]

The statement from MySpace came after a week of tensions between MySpace and the state attorneys general. Last Monday, state prosecutors demanded that MySpace reveal the results of its partnership with Sentinel and begin turning over names to law enforcement.

MySpace replied by saying that it wanted to comply but was legally hamstrung by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which required the company to receive a subpoena first before divulging user information to the government. State law enforcement officials viewed MySpace’s reaction as a snub, igniting a series of dueling news releases and television appearances by angry law enforcement officials.

But on Monday, MySpace officials said their intent was always to share the information with prosecutors. “We had this information safeguarded and ready to hand over,” said Mike Angus, executive vice president and general counsel for Fox Interactive Media, which owns MySpace. “But we wanted to make sure that each state got the information through a legal process that allowed them to use it to prosecute and lock up these sexual predators. The last thing we wanted was for one of these predators to get off on a technicality.”

[coryjd]

Instead of handing over the personal information, they should hand over all of the registered sex offender's cut off balls. Kill two birds with one stone - literally!

[D34dm4n]

good, at least the site serves some purpose

[Gibby]

share all you want myspace, and now for a public service announcement.

If you are dumb enough to put personal information out on something like myspace, then quite frankly myspace sharing your info is the least of your worries.