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New Web Law May Be 'Worthless,' Watchdog Warns
Tech Daily Dose — ... hailed the legislation's passage and Bush's signing of the measure. The company's privacy chief Chris Kelly said in a blog post that the law "takes an important step in dramatically reducing the opportunities to harm children online." Facebook has long barred registered sex offenders from the service and currently works with individual states' attorneys general to check users against state-registered sex offender lists, he said. But those lists "lack the essential e-mail and IM data" and the process is less efficient and effective than anyone, especially ...

Facebook's safety chief responds to KIDS act
Webware.com — Facebook chief privacy officer Chris Kelly has put out a statement to the Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act (KIDS), which President George W. Bush signed on Monday along with the Protect Our Children Act. In short: Facebook supports the act and says it will cooperate with it. "We see KIDS as an ...

Facebook Announces Support of KIDS Act
All Facebook — While John McCain may not be the most technically savvy individual, a bill that he proposed called “Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act of 2008″ was approved yesterday by President Bush. The bill requires registered sex offenders to provide their e-mail addresses to a national database which is then made available to social networking sites. This afternoon, Chris Kelly of Facebook announced that Facebook would support this act. While this act is a great step forward, there are definitely a few issues with the law. First of all, the act does not prevent first time offenders from browsing the web ...

Facebook Fighting Predators, Fostering Startups
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — Facebook, Facebook. A year ago, it seemed we could hardly go a day without some newsworthy tidbit from the sweetheart of the social networking scene. These days, positive headlines—or any at all, since “ink is ink”—are much fewer and further between. But today, Facebook has two reasons to make the news: they’ve endorsed the new KIDS Act from the US federal government and they’re finally disbursing the fbFund for startups. The Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act of 2008 was signed into law on Monday. The new act requires sexual offenders to include email addresses and IM names on ...

Facebook Supporting Legislation Fighting Sexual Predators
WebProNews Feed — [image] Facebook, Facebook. A year ago, it seemed we could hardly go a day without some newsworthy tidbit from the sweetheart of the social networking scene. These days, positive headlines or any at all, since ink is ink are much fewer and further between. But today, Facebook has two reasons to make the news: they ve endorsed the new KIDS Act from the US federal government and they re finally disbursing the fbFund for startups. The Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act of 2008 was signed into law on Monday. The new act requires sexual offenders to include email addresses and IM names on the National Sex Offenders Registry. ...

Facebook Privacy Chief Leaving to Run for California AG?
Inside Facebook — Chris Kelly, Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer who spent time this summer explaining Facebook’s privacy principles to Congress, is planning to announce his candidacy for the California Attorney General’s office, TechCrunch reports. Kelly is certainly well connected in the state AG circles, having spent a lot of time over the last couple years working with state attorneys general to put together legislation that protects kids’ privacy online. Earlier this year, he helped get the KIDS Act of 2008 passed, which requires “all convicted sex offenders provide their email and instant messaging ...