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MySpace to Enforce Youth Safety Measures
MySpace will be amping up their security measures in an effort to combat child predators in their online community. Yesterday, it was announced that MySpace is cooperating with the attorneys general in 49 states to implement a number of child protection safeguards. According to the New York Times:
- MySpace will classify as private all profiles of users under the age of 18
- Strengthen its response to complaints of inappropriate content on the site
- Organize a task force of Internet businesses, nonprofit organizations and technology companies to review and develop online safety tools
- The site will also accept independent monitoring
and according to the WSJ (via TechCrunch), MySpace will:
- Allow parents to submit a child’s email addresses to MySpace to prevent anyone from misusing the addresses to set up profiles.
- Make the default setting “private” for 16- and 17-year-old users so they cannot be viewed by adults they don’t already know.
- Respond within 72 hours to complaints about inappropriate content and devote more staff and resources to classify photographs and discussion groups.
- Strengthen software against underage users.
- Create a high school section for users under 18 years old.
