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MySpace Agrees to Youth Protections

New York Times - January 14, 2008

MySpace already make the profiles of of 14 and 15 years olds automatically private. Now, MySpace is set to classify all profiles of users 18 and younger as private. Other social networking websites are being pressured to following with similar privacy models.

The purpose of this move is to help protecting teenagers and children using its site from sexual predators. The decision comes eight months after the attorneys general from eight states charged that the site had not done enough to block sexual predators from the service and had failed to cooperate with the authorities.