Facebook Removed 5,500 Sex Offender Profiles Since MayAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on February 20, 2009 - 9:48am.
Raleigh,
N.C. - Online social network Facebook
has removed the profiles of more than 5,500 convicted sex offenders from its
website since last May, according to Connecticut Attorney General Richard
Blumenthal, the Associated Press reported. "The message in this number is
Facebook has an equal stake in solving this problem of protecting children. They
have an equal stake in the predator problem and its solution," Blumenthal
told AP.The news comes after MySpace (NYSE: NWS) said earlier this month that it had removed the profiles of 90,000 sex offenders, as well as a report that saw the head of Sentinal, the company hired by MySpace to identify sex offenders on the site, allege that over 8,000 of the booted MySpace members also had profiles on Facebook. Facebook chief privacy officer Chris Kelly told AP has proposed to the several attorneys general working on the issue that they work jointly to develop a real-time cross-referencing system that would "block any registration from the get-go."
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