I was browsing through to see more on this week’s topic. And I found some interesting stuff.
Have you come across these e-social networks? I thought it was really cool
à futureofthebook.org that discusses interesting posts – this part of the blog is relevant to our topic
à Bakespace – a social networking site for people who like cooking. This does not interest me, but may interest some of you
à Respectance – to share memories, this also allows people to pay respect to people that you adore – they have one for Hemmingway
Further, I thought the below materials may interest you as they are on e-identities, an aspect that I am interested in
à Federated Identity – this has very little to do with any of our topics but I thought this was a very cool thing to share, as it could be a possible future for online business networks. Read the rest.
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By Ron Sokol
Ask the Lawyer
Question: What’s to prevent some creep from sending explicit material to my 14-year-old daughter when she’s online, or trying to set up some kind of meeting with her?
- R.F.,
Lomita
Answer: While I can respond from a legal standpoint, there may be protections that can be placed on the child’s computer that you should look into. Also, talk very seriously with your child to report any e-mail or message of any such nature whatsoever immediately to you.
If something untoward is received, contact the 24-hour CyberTipline at 800-843-5678 (or go to www.cybertipline.com). By law, Internet Services Providers are required to report any child pornography or child sexual exploitation to the tip line.
Further, it is illegal for an adult to send obscene or sexually explicit material online to minors. It also is against the law for an adult with sexual motives to seek to seduce a minor online, or to arrange an in-person meeting with the child (even if the adult does not show up).
Setting up such a meeting alone is a misdemeanor that can result in a year in jail. If the meeting occurs, the adult may face four years in state prison for “online enticement.”
The statutes on point are California Penal Code Sections 272 and 288.3, and 18 USC (United States Code, at the federal level) Section 2422(b).
Q: We attended an all day mediation in our case. The mediator was expensive. The key defendant’s insurance adjuster had little authority - she had to call “the home office.” Word was she could not get her supervisor to give her sufficient authority. The whole thing was a bust. Am I supposed to believe mediation is worthwhile?
- M.G.,
Torrance
A: What you describe is very frustrating. You are there in good faith, ready to try to work things out, but one of the primary parties does not even have adequate settlement authority to get the job done. If it helps, that has happened to many of us. Read the rest. For more informaiton and stories like this, please Join US, every Monday Night LIVE @ 11:00 pm MST for:
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11 June, 2007 Chatmag News.
The Dateline NBC TV series, “To Catch a Predator” has produced no substantial results. Alleged online predators have received no more than probation, or a few months in jail, at most.
According to a story published by The Cincinnati Enquirer, authorities have made at least 141 Internet sex-sting busts in five southwest Ohio counties from 2003 through 2006. An analysis of 46 cases revealed that 20 percent of offenders ended up with no jail time at all.
Ohio was the scene for one of the more controversial Dateline NBC stings, in which operators from the vigilante group Perverted-Justice.com were deputized by the Darke County Sheriffs Department.
Following two articles first published by Chatmag.com News, criticism is mounting against Dateline NBC. In Illinois, a former associate producer for Dateline was fired, after complaining about possible ethics violations regarding the “To Catch A Predator” series. In another case, in Murphy, Texas, prosecutors refuse to file charges against 24 men alleged to be online predators, and who were featured on the show.
In the Murphy Texas and Ohio stings, lack of evidence, refusal of the Perverted-Justice.com operators to testify and jurisdictional issues are some of the major stumbling blocks cited in order to bring the cases to court.
Read more about, The Dateline NBC TV series, “To Catch a Predator”
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The following is a transcript of a report by Call 4 Action reporter Aaron Saykin that first aired May 25, 2007, on WTAE Channel 4 Action News at 5 p.m
The end of the school year marks the start of a busy season for online sexual predators, police said.
Authorities said summertime is when children are most likely to be contacted by a sexual predator.
“Children tend to think nothing is going to happen, because they’re talking to a machine,” said Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett. “Somebody’s on the other side.”
Most recently, according to Corbett, Stephen Turchetta, 39, of Altoona, was charged on Thursday with using the Internet to sexually proposition what he thought was a 13-year-old girl.
Instead, Corbett said, Turchetta was talking to a special agent from his office who was posing as young teen.
Pennsylvania has joined several other states, ordering the popular Web site MySpace to reveal all registered sex offenders with their own MySpace pages.
The big concern was that online predators would thrive in the summer with so many young teens home alone.
“They can hide until the very last moment and that last moment, can be when they meet your child and take your child away, and you don’t see your child again,” said Corbett. “That’s what parents have to think about.”
OSA Editorial Comments:
Thanks to the ThePittsburghChannel.com for this great story, and insight to the brand new threats and to teach us how to keep our children safe hiis summer!
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Laurie Stein
Reporting
(CBS4) MIAMI Technology has made it easier for sexual predators to prey on kids. Chat rooms provide what seems to be a safe environment for conversation, but often allow predators to lure kids into meetings. Video and pictures of victimized children are traded daily on the web. Now, in a CBS4 News Special Report, Laurie Stein shows you how police are using new, state of the art tactics to catch online predators.
“Project Safe Childhood“, based in South Florida, is the he first conference of its kind. It brought local, state and federal agents together to track and catch online predator.
By 2008, more than 1000 law enforcement personnel will get this specialized training. Alex Acosta, US Attorney for the Southern District, told CBS4 Investigative Reporter Laurie Stein predators are getting more aggressive, targeting even younger children.
“We have children of every age range,” Acosta said. “We had a recent case where an individual had images under the age of 5. We are looking for a predator who was involved in molesting a child 2 or 3 years old.”
According to the US Department of Justice, online predators are finding new ways to evade law enforcement, using state-of the art file sharing technology or so called peer-to-peer networks to share illicit photos.
“One of the things we are seeing,” said Dan Fridman, Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, “There is “napster” for child pornography in effect. People are logging onto other people’s computers to trade large quantities of child pornography.”
OSA Editorial Comments:
Will it never end, this everyday assault on our children and online security, I for one am so totally fed up with it all. The main issues here are not what to do to catch them but what we to punish to fullet extent of the law. The fact is, it’s the lack of concern, and that nothing is being done to punish the cyber criminals is the (CRIME).
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