However, since then News Corp and the states, which had made the request have worked out a legal method of using the information about the sex offenders. Myspace is said to have made the decision to disclose the information after some of the states began legal action to demand that they did so.
MySpace developed special software, known as Sentinel Safe, which checks the site’s members against a database of registered sex criminals and removes any that it detects.
MySpace said since it started Sentinel Safe running on the website on May 2, it had deleted about 7000 profiles posted by known and convicted sex offenders from a total of 180 million.
