REUTERS -- Dec 5 -- News Corp.'s MySpace said on Tuesday it will offer in the next 30 days a technology to identify and block convicted sex offenders from the popular online social network. MySpace struck a deal with Sentinel Tech Holding Corp., an expert in background verification, to build the new feature. 'Sentinel Safe,' will let MySpace search state and federal databases to seek out and delete MySpace profiles of registered sex offenders and will be available within 30 days. According to MySpace, there are 550,000 registered sex offenders in the U.S., and the new service will be the first national database that brings together about 46 state sex offender registers.
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