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- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:24:33 EST, "Richard M. Smith" said:
>
>> In a bid to appease government critics, News
?> <http://online.wsj.com/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=nws> Corp.'s
popular
>> Web site MySpace.com is planning to offer free parental notification
>> software -- a move that risks alienating its young users.
>> 
>> Parents who install the monitoring software on their home computers
>> would be able to find out what name, age and location their children are
>> using to represent themselves on MySpace.
>
>One has to wonder how they intend to verify that it is in fact an
>authorized parent or legal guardian, especially if kids are doing MySpace
>from places other than their own home computers.
>

Well, considering that MySpace cannot even determine which of
their users are actually under 18 (which they promised to do
on several occasions), I find it highly unlikely that this new
press release indicates that anything has actually changed. :-)

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
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