Myspace Adds Security Against Online Predators
CNN ran a story about a 16-year-old girl who tricked her parents and flew to the Mideast to meet a 20-year-old man she met on myspace.
This incident follows a lawsuit filed by a 14-year-old girl who was victimized by an Internet predator she met on the online social network.
In response, myspace is implementing a new security measure that won't allow adults to chat with minors unless they already know the email address or full name of the minor.
While this security measure will help, parents need to do more to protect their children from online predators.
Many predators masquerade as a minor or as a student themselves, so they can lull their victims into a false sense of security. And most kids are far more willing to share personal information with someone they see as a peer. This becomes a danger because myspace doesn't have any mechanisms in place to prove the ages of its users.
This is why parental control software, like WebWatcher, is still a necessity, regardless of the security that myspace is seeking to ensure.
With the email recording and chat recording software that comes with Awareness Tech's WebWatcher parents can know who their kids are talking to, and what is being said.
It's the best kind of security out there for kids who go online.
This incident follows a lawsuit filed by a 14-year-old girl who was victimized by an Internet predator she met on the online social network.
In response, myspace is implementing a new security measure that won't allow adults to chat with minors unless they already know the email address or full name of the minor.
While this security measure will help, parents need to do more to protect their children from online predators.
Many predators masquerade as a minor or as a student themselves, so they can lull their victims into a false sense of security. And most kids are far more willing to share personal information with someone they see as a peer. This becomes a danger because myspace doesn't have any mechanisms in place to prove the ages of its users.
This is why parental control software, like WebWatcher, is still a necessity, regardless of the security that myspace is seeking to ensure.
With the email recording and chat recording software that comes with Awareness Tech's WebWatcher parents can know who their kids are talking to, and what is being said.
It's the best kind of security out there for kids who go online.
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