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Dave White, an agent with ICAC, said the problem came to their attention a year ago while giving presentations to school students about Internet safety. White said kids began coming up to him and other agents saying people had tried to have lewd conversations with them or asked for personal information. "I thought, wow, this is an area where we need to look into," White said.
"We've had complaints from individuals about their children being contacted and lewd statements being made to them," Wallentine said. Now Utah's ICAC will become one of the first law enforcement organizations in the nation to dedicate agents to patrol and investigate online gaming worlds.
Recently, Microsoft launched a campaign for parents to teach them Internet safety. Parents can go to www.xbox.com/isyourfamily set to access information from the "Safety is No Game. Is Your Family Set?" campaign.
Xbox360, Playstation3 and Nintendo's Wii offer kids a whole world of gaming excitement. Unfortunately, it also offers predators another avenue to reach your kids.
Via GamePolitics, the AP reports some sickening news about a pedophile using the Xbox Live Community to get to teenage boys. The 26 year-old man, Ronnie Brendan Watts is being charged with moltesting a teenage boy by the Santa Rosa, California police. The story has Watts meeting the 14-year-old boy on Xbox Live, where the two then moved to a different medium to exchange emails and web cam videos.
Xbox 360 Family Settings offer unprecedented flexibility for system setup and management.
Here you'll find detailed instructions on how to configure Family Settings for:
* Online friends
* Communications
* Gamer profile viewing
* Gamer profile sharing
* Online status
* Online games
* Member content