MySpace to provide sex offender data to state AGs

MySpace.com has unveiled a plan for cooperating with the state attorneys general who have requested that the social-networking site turn over data pertaining to registered sex offenders.

According to a statement from the company released on Monday, MySpace will provide the Multi-State Attorney General Executive Committee data that it has gathered on registered sex offenders through its partnership with identity verification firm Sentinel Tech Holding.

The News Corp. unit said it has worked in conjunction with several lawmakers to develop a "process to expedite the delivery of useful information to enable the attorneys general to use in their pursuit of any of these individuals who are breaking the law."

Further details on the process have not yet been provided.

Earlier this month, the attorneys general from the states of Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania authored a letter to MySpace requesting that it provide the aforementioned information, citing concerns "that sexual predators are using MySpace to lure children into face-to-face encounters and other dangerous activities."