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Louisiana state rep. Jeff Thompson sponsored a new law requiring sex offenders to list their status on social media sites.

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(CNN) -- A new Louisiana law requires sex offenders and child predators to state their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page, with the law's author saying the bill is the first of its kind in the nation.

State Rep. Jeff Thompson, a Republican from Bossier City, Louisiana, says his new law, effective August 1, will stand up to constitutional challenge because it expands sex offender registration requirements, common in many states, to include a disclosure on the convicted criminal's social networking sites as well.

Thompson, an attorney and a father of a 13-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son, said he hopes other states will follow Louisiana.

Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have been removing sex offenders from their web pages for years, but Thompson said the law is designed to cover any possible lapses by social networking sites.

"I don't want to leave in the hands of social network or Facebook administrators, 'Gee, I hope someone is telling the truth,'" Thompson said Tuesday. "This is another tool for prosecutors."

The new law, signed by Gov. Bobby Jindal earlier this month, builds upon existing sex offender registration laws, in which the offender must notify immediate neighbors and a school district of his or her residency near them, Thompson said.

The law states that sex offenders and child predators "shall include in his profile for the networking website an indication that he is a sex offender or child predator and shall include notice of the crime for which he was convicted, the jurisdiction of conviction, a description of his physical characteristics... and his residential address."

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(CNN) A new Louisiana law requires sex offenders and child predators to state their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page, with the laws author saying the bill is the first of its kind in the nation.

State Rep. Jeff Thompson, a Republican from Bossier City, Louisiana, says his new law, effective August 1, will stand up to constitutional challenge because it expands sex offender registration requirements, common in many states, to include a disclosure on the convicted criminals social networking sites as well.

Thompson, an attorney and a father of a 13-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son, said he hopes other states will follow Louisiana.

Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have been removing sex offenders from their web pages for years, but Thompson said the law is designed to cover any possible lapses by social networking sites.

I dont want to leave in the hands of social network or Facebook administrators, Gee, I hope someone is telling the truth, Thompson said Tuesday. This is another tool for prosecutors.

The new law, signed by Gov. Bobby Jindal earlier this month, builds upon existing sex offender registration laws, in which the offender must notify immediate neighbors and a school district of his or her residency near them, Thompson said.

The law states that sex offenders and child predators shall includes in his profile for the networking website an indication that he is a sex offender or child predator and shall include notice of the crime for which he was convicted, the jurisdiction of conviction, a description of his physical characteristics and his residential address.

Several states now require sex offenders and child predators to register with authorities their e-mail accounts, Internet addresses or profile names to social network and other web sites, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. A few states such as Illinois and Texas even outright prohibit sex offenders, as a condition of parole, from accessing social networking websites, the group said.

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Louisiana state rep. Jeff Thompson sponsored a new law requiring sex offenders to list their status on social media sites.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

(CNN) -- A new Louisiana law requires sex offenders and child predators to state their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page, with the law's author saying the bill is the first of its kind in the nation.

State Rep. Jeff Thompson, a Republican from Bossier City, Louisiana, says his new law, effective August 1, will stand up to constitutional challenge because it expands sex offender registration requirements, common in many states, to include a disclosure on the convicted criminal's social networking sites as well.

Thompson, an attorney and a father of a 13-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son, said he hopes other states will follow Louisiana.

Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have been removing sex offenders from their web pages for years, but Thompson said the law is designed to cover any possible lapses by social networking sites.

"I don't want to leave in the hands of social network or Facebook administrators, 'Gee, I hope someone is telling the truth,'" Thompson said Tuesday. "This is another tool for prosecutors."

The new law, signed by Gov. Bobby Jindal earlier this month, builds upon existing sex offender registration laws, in which the offender must notify immediate neighbors and a school district of his or her residency near them, Thompson said.

The law states that sex offenders and child predators "shall include in his profile for the networking website an indication that he is a sex offender or child predator and shall include notice of the crime for which he was convicted, the jurisdiction of conviction, a description of his physical characteristics... and his residential address."

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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is opening its pocketbook once again, this time to acquire enterprise social-networking company Yammer for about $1.2 billion. This follows Microsoft's biggest ever acquisition in May 2011 of Skype for a whopping $8.5 billion. Will Yammer really help Microsoft? Let's dig into the details.

What is Yammer?Yammer is somewhat similar to social-networking site Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) and Twitter, but it's used exclusively in a corporate environment. The cloud-based service allows employees to set up their own profiles, chat among themselves in forums, and receive streaming notifications about what their colleagues are doing. But what makes Yammer really special is that almost 85% of global Fortune 500 companies use it.

How does this help Microsoft?Microsoft makes more than half of its annual operating income from its Office productivity software. And despite facing competition from Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) in the form of Google Docs and other alternatives, its Office offering has held its ground.

However, the company has been lagging behind in the enterprise social networking (ESN) space, while Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) , among others, has made big inroads into ESN, most recently through its announced acquisitions of Collective Intellect and Vitrue. salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) also expanded its ESN capabilities recently by acquiring marketing and social-media platform Buddy Media. The acquisition gives salesforce.com key enterprise social-networking capabilities and access to big customer names such as Ford and Hewlett-Packard.

For Microsoft, Yammer's highly popular enterprise social-networking platform can be used to enhance its Office software or to add to its existing enterprise collaboration offering called SharePoint. That program has some of Yammer's features, although its social-networking and document-sharing features remain largely unused by corporate clients, allowing Yammer to fill that gap. It will be interesting to see how exactly Microsoft integrates Yammer into its other offerings.

A Foolish conclusionYammer should strengthen Microsoft's software portfolio and should help boost the company's SharePoint offering, adding critical social-networking functionality to its enterprise offerings. There's a stark contrast between the frothy acquisition market in enterprise social networking and the stock price performance of its consumer-oriented cousin Facebook. The social network is the key topic of our latest special free report: Forget Facebook -- Here's the Tech IPO You Should Be Buying. In it, we outline another recent IPO that we believe offers a much better long term opportunity for Foolish investors. Grab your free copy today!

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NEW YORK (CBS 2) If you think staying off popular social networking sites, like Pinterest and MySpace, will protect your privacy, think again. A new study found your personal information is often on these sites even though youre not.

Millions of people cant imagine living without social networking, but others dont want any part of it.

I didnt want to know the people in high school when I was in high school, so I dont want them finding me now, Gregg Giglione recently told CBS 2s Chris Wragge.

A bunch of reasons, Mike Karlesky said when asked why he doesnt have a Facebook account. One, I know that I would end up getting sucked into it.

Neither Giglione nor Karlesky have accounts on the social networking giant, but their personal information, including where they live, their employment history and even what they do in their spare time is easy to find on the site, and available for all to see.

On Facebook? Huh, Im actually shocked, Giglione said.

Doesnt sit well with me, Karlesky added.

And theyre not alone. German researchers found all kinds of personal information and private details about people who werent members of Facebook all over the site.

A male or female, straight or gay and so that information is so sensitive and even if you didnt directly post that information, we can infer that about you, said NYU-Poly cyber security expert Max Pala.

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