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News from the States
State News Headlines
January 30, 2007
The following headlines are compiled as an internal service for state Attorney General offices only. This list is not exhaustive and is a snapshot of news from around the country compiled through the use of various search engines.
Proposal requires sex offenders to list e-mail, IM
Thousands of Web sites with message boards or chat rooms would be encouraged to check their lists of registered users against a federal list of sex offenders, according to forthcoming legislation in the U.S. Congress. The proposal says that such Web sites may--but are not required to--send a formal statement to the U.S. Department of Justice to request a list of sex offenders' e-mail addresses and screen names used for instant messaging. A press conference is planned on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to announce the sex-offender legislation (PDF), a copy of which was seen in advance by CNET News.com. Scheduled speakers include Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., Rep. Paul Gillmor, R-Ohio, and MySpace.com Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam. Full Article
Cingular, Priceline, Travelocity Settle With New York Over Use of Adware
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Monday that three online advertisers have agreed to settle allegations they improperly promoted their products and services on the Internet through computer programs known as adware. Mr. Cuomo said in a press release that Priceline.com Inc., Travelocity.com and Cingular Wireless have agreed, as part of a settlement, to deliver their online advertisements only through companies that fully describe their adware, that obtain customer consent to install it and that make it practical for consumers to remove those programs from their computers. Full Article
MySpace opens sex offender list to missing kids group
NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp.'s (NWS.N) popular Web network MySpace, criticized for not doing enough to protect young people on its site from sexual predators, said on Monday it opened access to its database of U.S. sex offenders to a center that tracks missing children. MySpace will donate use of its database, which combines close to 50 U.S. state registries on convicted sex offenders, to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The center will use the database to help law enforcement in their investigations. Full Article
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