MySpace to address Net safety at press conference
MySpace.com has informed media that it will be making a "major announcement in regards to Internet safety" on Monday morning at a midtown New York hotel.
No other information was provided except that MySpace’s chief security officer, Hemanshu Nigam, will be on hand, along with other representatives from the News Corp.-owned social-networking site.
But if last week’s news is any indication, this announcement may deal with the subpoena that MySpace was issued in the investigation surrounding the death of 13-year-old Megan Meier, who hanged herself in 2006. Meier had been repeatedly harassed by a "boyfriend" on MySpace, whose profile turned out to be a fake persona created by an adult neighbor whose daughter had once been a friend of Meier.
There has, however, not been any sign that the press conference actually will deal with that case–it just seems like a logical fit. MySpace has, at least until this point, not commented on the subpoena issued in the Meier investigation.
