"MySpace is teaming up with Sentinel Tech Holding to build and deploy within 30 days a database that will contain the names and physical descriptions of convicted sex offenders in the United States. An automated system will search for matches between the database and MySpace user profiles. Employees then will delete any profiles that match," reports AP.
Image-recognition software and other techniques are being considered to identify sex offenders who do not use their real names. In the meantime, [John Cardillo, MySpace CEO] said, the database technology won't catch everyone but "will be highly effective". He declined to elaborate or provide any quantifiable targets.
