We knew that it was just a matter of time until someone who was not a sex offender got caught up in the MySpace purge of Sex Offenders, and today, Jessica Davis who is not a sex offender was wrongly identified of being one and had her MySpace material pulled.

“They have a corporate and a moral responsibility to me as far as coming up and saying, ‘We messed up. This is going on. We’re doing what we can to fix it,’” said the 29-year-old, newly engaged University of Colorado senior, a woman who confessed to losing her driver’s license for careless driving a decade ago but insisted she’d never committed a crime to earn the status of sex offender. Source: ABC News

The idea of what the quality of the databases that people tie into to make decisions about things, or tie their web 2.0 widgets into has gotten attention, the idea that what is in the non public databases is also of issue. This is not the first time that someone has been caught up in something they did not do because of what is in non-public databases that have errors, omissions, or blatant mistakes.

The problem with things like this is that people can be denied credit, mortgages, or have to spend time in jail while waiting for their names to be cleared. While we do not know if Jessica has a decent lawsuit yet, we are sure that there are lawyers already thinking about how to manage the social and economic outcome of the MySpace purge of sex offenders.

Nothing is ever 100% perfect, yet this opens the door to people who are wrongly accused or past their statute of limitations for a crime to tag MySpace with a number of interesting lawsuits that will help define how social networks manage people with criminal records, or those people who don’t have one and are wrongly tagged with a crime.