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MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search

Submitted by MacRonin on May 30, 2007 - 4:04pm
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MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search: "gbulmash writes 'In its eagerness to clear sex offenders off its site and publish their identities, MySpace identified an innocent woman as a sex offender. She shares a name and birth month with a sex offender who lives in a neighboring state and that was apparently enough to get MySpace to wrongly brand her and completely ignore her protests.'

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