Indian to secure US's most popular site for teenagers

MySpace, US’s most popular social network site for teenagers, will soon have an Indian American online safety czar to deal with a growing menace of porn and sexual predators that has alarmed parents and law enforcement officials. Hemanshu Nigam, a corporate attorney of repute with Microsoft, has been handpicked to shore up the safety of a site that boasts of 70 million members and ranks second only to Yahoo in terms of page views. Nigam’s induction to police the site, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Interactive Media, comes close on the heels of a series of incidents in which sexual predators used personal information and profiles posted on MySpace to track down and molest teens. “One in five kids online is sexually solicited. Online predators know what they’re doing. Do you?,” reads one of the new public service ads now being put out by MySpace. More...

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