A few days ago news broke that MySpace found a whopping 29,000+ sex offenders using the site.
With an estimated 600,000 registered sex offenders in the United States, this means that 5% of all of America’s sex offenders were stupid enough to put in personally identifiable information in their profiles. How much do you want to bet that more than 5% of sex offenders are on MySpace?
I was unable to discover what exactly MySpace used to identify the offenders, but a comment on MyCrimeSpace claims that MySpace uses facial recognition software to identify predators. I was unable to verify this, but this story about a false positive hints that they may be using recognition software, since the woman falsely accused was pictured with a man who was a registered sex offender.
Update: As commented below, MySpace does indeed use facial recognition technology provided by Sentinel Tech.
The system has been co-developed by Sentinal Tech in cooperation with a major data aggregator. Theres more information you may find helpful, including some predators profiles found after the latest scrub of the site on my blog: http://fraudarena.wordpress.com
All best,