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More laws, collaboration required for online safety
Washington state’s attorney general is only half joking when he suggests that perhaps sites like Facebook and MySpace should require members to use a credit card to sign up for access as a way to prove their identity. “We need good age- and identity-verification technology so that it’s much harder for an individual to get online and pretend to be 15 when really it’s a 45-year-old man,” said Attorney General Rob McKenna at the Authentication and Online Trust Summit in Seattle on Thursday. — NetworkWorld.com, MA

Capella University Extends Partnership With Blackboard
Blackboard Inc., a leading provider of enterprise learning technology, today announced a five-year extension of its partnership with Capella University, an accredited, online university that focuses on master’s and Ph.D. degrees. — CNNMoney.com

eteach.com launches Facebook application
eteach.com, the UK’s number one online education recruitment service, has announced the launch of its new Facebook application.The new application allows Facebook users to search and apply for jobs from within their Facebook profiles. — Online Recruitment, UK

SAS Brings Online High School Curriculum Tool to Homeschoolers
Ed tech provider SAS inSchool, a unit of SAS, is bringing its online curriculum tool, Curriculum Pathways, to homeschoolers. The company this week announced that it would make the technology available for home users for a $99 annual licensing fee. – T.H.E. Journal, CA