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Task Force on Internet Predators Reports: People Need to Stop Freaking Out About Internet Predators

View the article here 01/13/2009 By Katherine Mangu-Ward About a year ago, absolutely everybody who was anybody in the Internet world, plus 50 attorneys general joined the very respected and respectable Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School's brand spanking new Internet Safety Technical Task Force. The goal was to figure out what to do about the Internet predators that seemed to be lurking in every corner, threatening children and generally ruining Web 2.0 for the rest of us. They promised to dig in and get back to us in a year with a really comprehensive report. Today The New York Times reports on the report, which concludes: Sites like MySpace and Facebook ?do not appear to have increased the overall risk of solicitation? and that ?posting personally identifying information does not appear to increase risk in and of itself...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).