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Sex Tech: That's What She Said, EHarmony and Sex Offenders
Pakistan blocks American sex ed site, dating sites screen for sex offenders, health officials want to use social networks to track STDs, and more.
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Judge tosses law banning sex offenders from Facebook
A federal judge has struck down a Louisiana law meant to keep registered sex offenders from Facebooking with minors because it encompasses too many types of websites.
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Facebook post sends sex offender back to jail, raises bail by $200,000
Nathan James Gastineau was sent back to jail and saw his bail raised by $200,000 over a Facebook post he wrote based off a Battlestar Galactica episode.
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'Porn link to sexual deviancy': Why this criminologist is sceptical
Is there a connection between online pornography and deviant sexual behaviour? Recent research suggests so, but this criminologist thinks otherwise.
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Facebook has removed 5,500 sex offenders since May
Facebook has removed more than 5,500 convicted sex offenders from its social networking Web site since May, Connecticut's attorney general said yesterday. Richard Blumenthal said the world's...
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Internet pretty safe for kids, after all
Report finds social networks aren't a hotbed of predatory adults.
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Child predators apparently don't use Gmail
A few years ago, a piece of popular legislation made its way past Illinois lawmakers (including Barack Obama, who voted in favor of it, as well as teacher unions, public health officials, etc.)...
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Social nets back Cuomo bill to register sex offenders
MySpace and Facebook are lined up behind a new bill introduced by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that would require sex offenders to register email addresses, and social networking and...
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NJ bans sex offenders from the Internet
When politicians can come out against sex offenders in some way, that's always a good thing for the press officer. The latest nice-idea-in-concept-but-how-do-you-enforce-it law comes from New...
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Bill to add emails to sex registry
The latest wrinkle in the battle against sex offenders: The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill to include email addresses and online IDs in offenders' records in the national registry of...
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Facebook faces challenge from sex predators
MySpace isn't the only social networking site to come under fire as a haven of sex offenders, reports Reuters. Facebook is facing a similar crisis, as Connecticut Attorney General Richard...
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MySpace finds 29,000 sex offenders on the site
Ever since MySpace relented to law enforcement to provide information on registered sex offenders who have posted profiles, everyone has wanted to know: How many perverts are busily chatting away...
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MySpace data leads to arrests of seven sex offenders
Texas is reeling in its first convicted sex offenders for posting profiles on MySpace, after the popular social networking site handed over data requested by the attorney general, reports Computer...
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First predator arrest via MySpace
Thanks to a joint collaboration between MySpace and state attorneys general, Connecticut authorities made its first arrest of a convicted sex offender, reports the Courant News. Christopher...
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MySpace falsely accuses woman of being sex offender
In a case of mistaken identity, MySpace has deemed a University of Colorado student a sex offender and dumped her profile, reports Wired News According to ABC News, 29 year-old Jessica Davis was...
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Website, email system pinpoints offenders' locations
Some 5,000 Hoosiers receive email alerts when offender moves into neighborhood.
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In CO, playing politics with sex offender laws
CO AG says Dems want to be fair to sex offenders, after bill that would target all offenders dies in committee. Dem-sponsored bill focused on child abusers has his support.
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HI passes on GPS measure for sex offenders
For a state with good treatment programs and low recidivism rates, high-tech, highly invasive strategy seen as unnecessary.
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OK bill would create email registry for sex offenders
Bill would also bar offenders from contacting children over the Internet. Would that mean a convict couldn't email his own child?
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Wide disparity in NJ sex offender registries
Some counties post as many as 43% of sex offenders to online registries, others as little as 8%. Individual prosecutor choices partly explain the difference but the large variations are puzzling.
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