MySpace.com is to offer parental control software in a bid to allay concerns and possible legal troubles over the potential for child abuse on the hit social networking site.
January 18, 2007 (Press Release) --
MySpace.com is to offer parental control software in a bid to allay concerns and possible legal troubles over the potential for child abuse on the hit social networking site, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
The software, which parents will be able to install on the computer used by the child, will allow them to see the child's profile name, age and location. But in a bid to retain credibility with underage users, the programmr will not allow the parents to see the profile page or read emails. It will also notify the user that the tracking software is in use.
There is as yet no release date set for the software, which is codenamed Zephyr, the report said.
MySpace, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, is the most popular social networking site in the US and is expanding internationally in countries like France and Japan. The site has come in for extensive criticism for making it easy for users to share extensive personal information over the Internet, making them targets for sexual predators.
A group of 33 US states attorneys are currently considering taking legal action against MySpace if the site doesn't raise the age limit to join the site from 14 to 16 and begin verifying users' ages, the Wall Street Journal said.
Source: http://www.playfuls.com/
The software, which parents will be able to install on the computer used by the child, will allow them to see the child's profile name, age and location. But in a bid to retain credibility with underage users, the programmr will not allow the parents to see the profile page or read emails. It will also notify the user that the tracking software is in use.
There is as yet no release date set for the software, which is codenamed Zephyr, the report said.
MySpace, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, is the most popular social networking site in the US and is expanding internationally in countries like France and Japan. The site has come in for extensive criticism for making it easy for users to share extensive personal information over the Internet, making them targets for sexual predators.
A group of 33 US states attorneys are currently considering taking legal action against MySpace if the site doesn't raise the age limit to join the site from 14 to 16 and begin verifying users' ages, the Wall Street Journal said.
Source: http://www.playfuls.com/
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