Online Web Site Seeks To Protect Young Users From PredatorsHartford, Conn (eCanadaNow) - After a number of highly publicized cases of Internet stalking and predators preying on unsuspecting children feature in the news recently, the web site FaceBook has decided to work to come up with a solution.
After much discussion the site is adding 40 new safeguards to help keep young people from cyberbullies and sexual predators, or others that would seek to do them harm.
The most extreme safeguard will only apply to citizens or users inside the United States, and that is the intention of Facebook to ban sexual predators from the site completely. This ban won’t affect users outside of the United States, however.
Each of the 70 million global users of Facebook would benefit, but the only data on sex offenders is coming from United States Sources, predators and convicted felons from Canada will not be on the list.
Canada has a national sex offender registry but it’s not available to the public only to members of the law enforcement community.
This new measure by FaceBook include limiting any way of a subscriber older than 18 from contacting anyone younger than 18 years old, and participation by a Facebook representative in a national task force to help verify identities and users age.
