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Editorial 1-31-07 |
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MySpace violates its own Privacy Policy and Terms of Agreement!
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1-30-2007 National:
MySpace opens sex offender list to missing kids group |
.News Corp.'s (NWS.N) popular Web network MySpace, criticized for not doing enough to protect young people on its site from sexual predators, said on Monday it opened access to its database of U.S. sex offenders to a center that tracks missing children. MySpace will donate use of its database, which combines close to 50 U.S. state registries on convicted sex offenders, to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The center will use the database to help law enforcement in their investigations.
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: by Kenneth Li
MySpace Privacy Policy
Sharing and Disclosure of Information MySpace.com Collects:
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, MySpace will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary:
(1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by MySpace.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law;
(2) to enforce the MySpace.com Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or
(3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service.
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.MySpace has apparently made a decision to block and delete registered sex offenders from their website. see "MySpace to 'block sex offenders" -AND- "MySpace donates sex offender database to center".
To the best of my knowledge and many news reports it appears that MySpace has done exactly that even though none of those legal RSO members have done anything wrong. They all signed up in good faith and according to the Terms of Agreement (TOA) provided correct information.
In fact, to this day MySpace has not changed its TOA to indicate to any new member signing up, that if they are a registered sex offender they cannot be a member of MySpace. This appears to be a first step in entrapping RSOs to get their e-mail addresses.
Apparently, MySpace has created a separate data base of just registered sex offenders who had MySpace accounts. They did so by violating the terms of service of the National Sex Offender Registry because the MySpace program completely bypassed the required security check used by the NSOR, no one said anything about that violation.
Now MySpace is turning that newly created data base over to a third party in direct violation of the MySpace TOA. None of the RSOs have done anything wrong nor have they violated any laws or the TOA. Accordingly, what is the basis, considering there has been no wrong doing?
Someone at MySpace must feel that RSOs are the ones that are contacting underage children on MySpace. It is interesting that, one and only one RSO, has ever been captured in the entire series of "Dateline Stings" (over 250 men now). Proof that -as usual- they are barking up the wrong tree.
Unfortunately, since the government is not asking for MySpace to do this, no one can claim a constitutional violation.
One thing that can be said for MySpace, is they cannot be trusted to live up to their own "Terms of Agreement" or their "Privacy Policy" if you become someone they simply do not like, no wrongdoing is necessary. MySpace's Credibility? Yes, I have not forgotten, they are owned by the media.
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