MySpace has been cooperating with law enforcement officials in creating a new plan to ensure the safety of minors on the Web. The News Corp. company is working with the attorneys general on a set
of principles to help combat a variety of social networking issues, including pornography, predators, cyberbullying and identity theft; educating parents and schools about the threat these sites
present to their kids.
Hemanshu Nigam, MySpace's chief security officer, called the new Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking a "landmark" partnership, which was
orchestrated by attorneys general Roy Cooper of North Carolina and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. The partnership covers 49 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Texas is the only state
missing from the task force, because state attorney general Greg Abbot believes the proposed safety measures aren't strong enough.
The Multi-State Working Group next seeks to
gain cooperation from other social networking sites, mainly Facebook, the Web's No. 2 social network. "We are calling on Facebook and other social-networking sites today to adopt these principles, to
put these safety practices in effect, and to join the task force," Cooper said. "We think it's critical that this be industrywide."
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