Archive for Internet Reputation Management
MySpace fingers 90,000 sex offenders
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By John Oates • Get more from this author
Posted in Law, 4th February 2009 11:06 GMT
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MySpace has admitted it has found, and removed, about 90,000 registered sex offenders on the social networking site in the last two years.
The Attorney General of Connecticut Richard Blumenthal hit MySpace with a subpoena demanding the information.
Blumenthal said the number of profiles refuted the final US Internet Safety Technical Task Force report which found adult sexual harrassment of children was a minor problem. He said the figure was appalling and: “For every one of them, there may be hundreds of others using false names and ages. These convicted registered sex offenders creating profiles under their own names unmasks MySpace’s monstrously inadequate counter-measures.”
MySpace, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Interactive Media, claimed in January that it was automatically deleting profiles from sex offenders and was monitoring all content more closely. Richard Blumenthal was behind moves in 2007 to force MySpace to admit the scale of the problem – it said then it had “detected and deleted” 27,000 paedophile profiles.
Blumenthal said: “My office will immediately seek to identify any and all Connecticut offenders with MySpace profiles and inform appropriate state authorities so they can determine whether terms of probation or release were violated, as has been done previously.” He urged other states to take similar action.
Blumenthal said he was still waiting for a response to a similar subpoena sent to Facebook.
Facebook said:
We have been working proactively with states’ attorneys general to run their lists of registered sex offenders against our user base. Our team uses various internal tools to automatically find matches. Any potential matches are evaluated more fully by our internal team of investigation professionals. If we find that someone on a sex offender registry is a likely match to a user on Facebook, we notify law enforcement and disable the account.In some cases, law enforcement has asked us to leave the accounts active so that they may investigate the user further. We have worked proactively to establish a publicly available national database available to everyone of registered sex offenders that enables real-time checks and includes important unique information like email addresses and IM handles.
Blumenthal’s press release is here.
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Using Goggles to save your online reputation
Posted by: | CommentsGoogle has available the download of goggle where you can save your online reputation by answering a few basic math problems before you send out that message you may later regret. This reputation safeguard may just be useful for making you think twice before you actually send out an email you emotionally wrote.
When you enable goggles you will be asked some basic math questions (and I mean basic) which will allow you extra time to reconsider before sending something over email. If you don’t want to install another program you can always sit on your emails after writing them for a few hours only pressing send when you have considered all the consequences of your actions.
With emotions running high and more and more people losing their jobs and wanting to rant in emails to their friends and co-workers I highly suggest using restraint and taking advantage of this tool if you don’t have the will power to thoroughly think through the consequences of your emails.
It is always best to keep some thoughts to yourself. You do not always have to let everyone know what your thinking or prove your point, especially when emails can be easily traced right back to you with free online tools and your header information which carries your IP address. I can easily trace most emails back to a name and address using the header information and it is hard to remain anonymous online anymore so think twice before you press that “send” key.
Improve your Internet Reputation
Posted by: | CommentsWith the World Wide Web or the Wild Wild West in full swing cyber abuse issues are at an all time high. Do you know everything that is online about you, your family or your company?
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We all make mistakes and errors in judgment at times so there is no need for stressing over the past. But find out everything that is online about you, your kids, your family or your company and take care of your reputation before it suprises you unsuspectingly and get the negative information and posts cleaned up as soon as you can.
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