MySpace Tightens Security

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NEW YORK Just a few months after making headlines by hiring a chief security officer to police its millions of Web pages, MySpace.com is now pledging to tighten up its free-for-all social environment by limiting interaction between adults and the site’s youngest users.

The News Corp.-owned social networking platform will no longer allow its 14- and 15-year-old users to receive any contact from adults 18 and over, unless those teens know the person contacting them. Any adult that wants to contact a teen of 14 or 15 on the site must know that person’s first and last name or e-mail address (already, the site does not allow anyone under the age of 14 from registering).

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