MySpace says no to sex offender profiles

 Popular online social network MySpace , with a user base of 175 million people worldwide, was infiltrated by user profiles of convicted sex offenders. In a major purging, the network site has identified, removed and blocked "a few thousand" suspect user profiles.

“We've made it clear we have a zero tolerance policy against convicted sex offenders,” MySpace Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam said. MySpace had come under attack over the past year after some of its young members fell prey to adult predators posing as minors.

The company has vowed to give free access of the database to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Convicted sex offenders are required by law to register their contact information with local authorities. But the information is only available in regional databases and has never been available on a national scale.  MySpace had cross-referenced its user profiles against the new database. There are about 600,000 registered convicted offenders in the U.S.

Nigam said the company is still working on a more efficient system to provide updates of information on offenders deleted from the site to the missing kids group.

[Via Reuters ]

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