Keeping predators away

Myspace and the attorneys general of 49 states have organized a task force to keep sexual predators away from social networks.

The drafted principles come after two years of talks and will require users be at least 14 to join social networking sites. User under 18 will have profiles automatically privatized to friends only.

Disagreement persists over whether current age-verification software will keep predators from signing up as children anyway. The task force has committed to solve this problem within a year.

Last year the attorneys general of New York and New Jersey filed subpoenas against Facebook for negligence in protecting underage users.