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MySpace Turns Over Datamined Info on Users

MySpace will provide attorneys general offices in all U.S. states with information it has gathered on convicted sex offenders who have used its social networking site, the most popular of its kind. Using a program called Sentinel SAFE, MySpace mines data in its service and detects registered sex offenders among its members' ranks, it said. The program was implemented this month "after an extensive period of development and testing," MySpace said.

MySpace to Turn Over Sex Offender Data to AGs, PC World, May 21, 2007.