EU Signs Pact With Networking Sites

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EU Signs Pact With Networking Sites To Protect Children Online

The European Commission today announced an agreement with 17 social
networking sites in Europe including MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube
that will set up safeguards against "cyber-bullying" and enhance the
protection of underage users.

"The Commission applauds this first European agreement on Social
Networking. It is an important step forward towards making our
children's clicks on social networking sites safer in Europe," said
Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media.
"Social networking has enormous potential to flourish in Europe, to
help boost our economy, and to make our society more interactive – as
long as children and teenagers have the trust and the right tools to
remain safe when making new 'friends' and sharing personal details
online."

The agreement, signed today in Luxembourg during the Safer Internet
Day organized by the European Commission, commits the sites to create
a "report abuse" button and to ensure that private profiles of users
under the age of 18 are not searchable and are set to the highest
privacy settings.

The use of social networks has grown over the past year by 35 percent
in Europe and is expected to more than double to 107.4 million users
by 2012.

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