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Official: MySpace finds 29,000 sex offenders on its site |
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USA Today
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Jul 24, 2007 |
 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered
sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking website —
more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago,
North Carolina officials said Tuesday.
North Carolina's Roy Cooper is one of several
attorneys general who recently demanded the News Corp.-owned website
provide data on how many registered sex offenders were using the site,
along with information about where they live.
After initially withholding the information,
citing federal privacy laws, MySpace began sharing the information in
May after the states filed formal legal requests.
At the time, MySpace said it had already used a
database it helped create to remove about 7,000 profiles of sex
offenders, out of a total of about 180 million profiles on the site.
Two MySpace spokeswomen did not immediately return calls seeking comment Tuesday.
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