• Reuters, Friday, December 8, 2006 10:48 AM

A day after News Corp. said it was testing a new automated program that would weed out sex offenders on MySpace, U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) John McCain (R-AZ) announced that they plan to introduce a bill requiring sex offenders to submit their email addresses to law enforcement.

A database of registered sex offenders' email addresses would make it easy for MySpace to keep them away from their site. Under the proposed legislation, perpetrators would submit their email address to their probation officer. Any offender caught giving an unregistered email address would be found in violation of their parole and face a return to prison.

"This legislation combined with our announcement earlier this week of plans to build the first real-time searchable national sex offender database will make the Internet a far safer place for all," MySpace Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigan said in a statement.

Read the whole story at Reuters »