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Sex offenders forced to disclose email addresses
CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERS will be required to disclose their e-mail addresses if a proposed bill passes UK Governement legislation.
Registered offenders who do not provide the police with the required information, or who give false addresses, will face up to five years in jail.
Websites like Bebo and Facebook will be expected to monitor the provided database of addresses and block the owners from accessing the sites.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told GMTV that she wanted children to be able to use the Web "free from fear", adding, "We need to patrol the internet to keep predators away from children in the same way as we patrol the real world."
The Home Office has already been in talks with a working group major Internet players, which reported that nearly half of all children in the UK had a presence on one or more of the social sites.
The proposal is expected to make it more difficult for those with convictions to pass themselves off as children. µ
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Its not like its hard for them to get another email address, is it?!?!?
And this will stop the paedos from sneaking off to Hotmail and registering child_lover2434@hotmail.com how? What a waste of time and money, but that's typical for this government.
This is completely useless.
Until parents start to give a crap about teaching their children to stay away from predators and using the internet in a safe manner, its just pointless.

but who is going to tell parents off because they don't teach their children and risk losing votes?`
To the commenters: obviously they have to constantly report any new e-mail address too, and obviously the fact that they threaten with 5 years jail is the reason why they would not just make a new hotmail address,
And seeing how in the UK they store every damn byte of e-mails from every e-mail travelling on their backbones there's a rather large likelihood they would find out, the only privacy comes from the sheer bulk of data collected.
Has Home Secretary Jacqui Smith ever said anything in public that didn't make a knowledgeable listener say, "What?!" 

(and why can't she spell her name properly?)
Good lord Jacqui Smith, while you are monitoring the very few sex offenders who are monitored already, whos going to monitor the people who have yet to commit a crime. Sounds like a vote getting quick fix instead of addressing the real issue. While the net police are looking for the few, who is going to look for the many. Start with the parents whom you have taken most of the authority away from to monitor their children. Don't be afraid to tell people what to do witht their kids, you may lose their vote, but if it works you have done your job.
What a good idea. Now any sex offender who wants to get revenge on the police can create a new email address every day and insist the police waste their time registering it with hours of paperwork.

If you see a child being abused don't bother to call the police. They are all too busy verifying email addresses.
so someone that abused children in secret is going to fess-up his/her email addresses?
another case of idiot MP's scoring a few more idiots votes.
If they really care why do the NSPCC have to beg for all there money?
What research Ive seen on the subject indicates that the majority of those people illicitly meeting with the underage do not in fact lie about their own age.
As the registrant of a domain or two, I could easily be almost anything at all 'at' them. On at least one, I am.

Would they like the list of my addresses on paper? Clearly they'd have to be listed individually...

In case someone baulks at that and insists on a regexp in such cases, I have decided that I will only use mailboxes which, when read as English, are the name of a prime number (eg Two@, Three@, Five@ etc). Mail to other mailboxes will be redirected elsewhere. With a little helper program, postfix will let me do this, even if I don't think a finite regexp exists for it.

So, anyone have a forest or two for the paper needed?
To be fair to Jacqui Smith..

.. this was originally thought up when Reid was Home Secretary