AMBER Alerts for missing children are now available to Facebook users.

Facebook users can sign up to receive AMBER Alert bulletins for their state which will be sent to them through their news feed.  A total of 53 new AMBER Alert pages have been created, one for each state, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia.  Facebook users will also be able to share the AMBER Alerts with their friends.

AOL’s MapQuest has partnered with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to launch a new widget on MapQuest Local that includes missing child alerts and information from NCMEC.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is using technology developed by Google to fight online child pornography.

The video fingerprinting technology provided by Google will allow analysts at NCMEC to conduct faster searches of video and images in its database to flag files with child pornography. Other tools will allow analysts to quickly review video clips. 

Three agencies have partnered to raise awareness and educate teenage girls about the potential dangers of posting and sharing information online.The U.S. Department of Justice, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the Ad Council all are focused on their Online Sexual Exploitation public service advertising (PSA) campaign.

Google added its name to two lists of corporate heavy-hitters who’ve teamed up with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and its international sister agency ICMEC to combat child pornography on the Internet.

The scum of the Earth just got five new corporate enemies. AOL, Earthlink, Microsoft, United Online, and Yahoo! have signed on to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s campaign against child exploitation on the Internet.

A page that worth bookmarking is MissingKidsMap.com, a mashup that uses Google Maps API and information provided by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to create a regularly updated map of the origins of missing children in the United States.