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."

Meh!

[Anonymous Coward]

MySpace is so 2004.

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[flynt]

Doesn't having a MySpace account make you a suspected sex offender, ipso facto?

Jumping to conclusions

[rehtonAesoohC]

Now be honest, how many people saw "MySpace," "woman," and "sex" and clicked the link right away?

Re:It's a good thing, then...

[Foobar of Borg]

Maybe someone needs to be..oh I don't know..tried before a judge and their peers before being branded guilty of a crime? I just thinking off the wall here...

That thar sounds like terrorist talk to me! Why do you hate America so much?

Sex Offenders...

[Kaenneth]

Apperently, I grew up next door to a child molester.

However, I didn't know this until I was an adult. He apperently molested 30-40 boys in the neighborhood, but not me.

I was right next door, but I was never chosen, what was wrong with me? Why didn't he choose me? being neglected was a heavy blow to my self esteem.