Tag: PREDATORS

After hearing lengthy complaints and protests from child safety advocates, Facebook has finally decided to implement a new feature designed to help teenage users stay safe online. As Reuters reports, members between the ages of 13 and 18 will now automatically receive an invitation to add an application that allows them to easily report suspicious activity. The feature, which is the result of a ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Proving Hollywood's inability to stop rebooting '80s films, the 'Predators' movie has gotten its first official trailer, dropping the original's Schwarzenegger and ...

Share After a 33-year-old U.K. man brutally raped and murdered a 17-year-old girl he met on Facebook, many demanded that the social networking site do more to protect its younger membership by installing a 'panic' button, which kids could click to instantly report danger. After lengthy consultations with child protection agencies, Facebook has indeed decided to take action, but has opted against ...

Think the worst your kids are exposed to in online gaming services like the Playstation Network is profanity? Think again. It seems that even the console gaming world is not safe for children anymore. Our friends at Joystiq recently caught wind of a 24-year old Sommerset, Kentucky man who has been arrested and charged with three felonies after he allegedly convinced an 11-year-old girl in ...

Online worlds are already plenty dangerous enough for impressionable kids. Now, according to USA Today, online gaming is being pegged as the next possible source of harm for young kids, with sexual predators using voice and text chat in online gaming services like Microsoft's Xbox Live and Sony's PlayStation Network as venues to meet kids. Several predators have been arrested after taking ...

On the same day MySpace and the attorneys general for 49 states announced an agreement that will allow parents to have their kids' email addresses blocked from the social networking site we get this tragic story out of Florida: A Tampa man met two girls, aged 14 and 12, through MySpace and met up with them to have sex. After the 14-year-old confided in her parents about what happened, the police ...