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Title: Harvard, Tech Firms Seek to Create Safety Net

Author: Lee, Ellen Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, pC1(2) Publication Date: Feb 26, 2008
URL of Publication: http://www.sfgate.com

Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society will head the Internet Safety Technical Task Force charged with figuring out how to keep kids safe online. MySpace, Facebook and Google Inc. will also take part. The task force arises from a pact between 49 state attorneys general (all except Texas) and MySpace, which also involved the popular social networking site agreeing to set up a 24-hour hot line and remove sexual predators from its site. Reports of predators have contacting children through social networking sites have sparked concern, and children are spending increasing amounts of time on the sites. The director of the Berkman Center said, however, that safety concerns have been overstated and the task forces first order of business will be to identify the actual threats facing kids on the Internet today. The task force will likely evaluate how to keep kids from unsuitable content and also review existing safety precautions like age verification techniques. They may also study the threats of cyber-bullying and harassment. The group will first meet in March and will prepare quarterly reports to the state attorneys general with a final report published at the end of the year.

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Facebook Inc Google Inc
Harvard University MySpace Inc

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