By Lucy Sherriff for The Register
This article has been reproduced with permission.
The suit alleges that MySpace does not do enough to protect its
under-age users, according to a report in the Austin American
Statesman, and includes news reports of other sexual assaults that
took place after people met on the MySpace network.
The lawyer representing the family, Adam Loewy, told the
newspaper: "MySpace is more concerned about making money than
protecting children online."
"We feel that one per cent of that is the bare minimum, that
they should compensate the girl for their failure to protect her
online when they knew sexual predators were on that site," he
said.
He argues that none of the registration information the site
requires needs to be true, and nothing is done to verify a user's
age.
MySpace.com's chief security officer Hemanshu Nigam issued a
statement saying: "We take aggressive measures to protect our
members. We encourage everyone on the internet to engage in smart
web practices and have open family dialogue about how to apply
offline lessons in the online world."
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