Thursday, February 5, 2009

1-Out-of-Every-8 Convicted Sex Offenders Created MySpace Pages in Past Two Years

Our hat is off to John A. Phillips, CEO of Aristotle, who created a web portal designed to educate parents as to the real risks of online predation. Phillips, an expert in identity verification technologies and Internet Safety Technical Task Force (ISTTF) member, launched COPS with the goal of empowering parents to have a voice in this debate and provide a means to hold social networking sites (SNS) -- such as MySpace -- accountable for failure to adopt appropriate safety protocols and user identification technologies necessary to reduce risks of online predation.

The portal, www.ChildOnlineProtectionService.com (COPS), was launched recently along with the statistic that 1-Out-of-Every-8 Convicted Sex Offenders Created MySpace Pages in Past Two Years

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