Showing posts with label MySpace. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Creep Alert: Thousands Of MySpace Sex Offender Refugees Found On Facebook


MySpace is in the spotlight today because it revealed that
90,000 registered sex offenders have been kicked off its site in the past two years. But where did all of those sex offenders go? Some evidence suggests that a portion of them are now on Facebook.

John Cardillo is a former New York City police officer and the CEO of Sentinel, a security technology firm based in Miami which helps MySpace, Bebo, MyYearbook, WePlay, and other social networks identify sex offenders. He goes so far as to call Facebook a “safe haven” for sex offenders. Needless to say, Facebook is not a client, and MySpace is his biggest one. But he shared some data with me that is hard to overlook.

Sentinel’s technology is the foundation for Sentinel SAFE, the software MySpace uses to identify sex offenders on its site. Sentinel SAFE is a database of more than 700,000 registered sex offenders in the U.S., complete with names, photos, dates of birth, email and IM addresses (when available), and more than a hundred other data points. Cardillo took the 90,000 sex offenders who were removed from MySpace and started looking for them on Facebook. He says:

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Facebook

Website:
facebook.com
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Founded: February 1, 2004
Funding: $516M
On February 4th, 2004
Mark Zuckerberg launched The Facebook, a social network that was at the time exclusively for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the student body… Learn More

MySpace

Website:
myspace.com
Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
Founded: August 1, 2003
Acquired: July 1, 2005 by
Fox Interactive Media for $580M in Cash
MySpace, which launched January 1 2004, is a popular social networking site that lets friends share, message and stay connected. The site lets you browse profiles, blog, email and join groups. MySpace also has videos, music and classifieds. Music…
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