nsane.forums Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Firm under pressure to adopt the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre's clickthrough service Facebook has agreed in principle to installing a panic button on its social networking site, according to a report from the BBC. The company is said to be considering the move following a "frank exchange" today with home secretary Alan Johnson. The meeting was held following calls for Facebook to install a button on its site that links straight through to Ceop, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. The Ceop clickthrough service is currently already available on MSN Live Messenger and Bebo. Last week, when raising concerns about those sites that have not adopted its warning system, Ceop chief executive Jim Gamble said, "Some 267 reports were received about activity on Facebook during 2009, of which 43 per cent were cases of suspected grooming. However, 81 per cent of those reports were made by people having to go to other sites to make the report. That cannot be right." View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambrocious Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Everyone must embrace the big brother/nanny state! You must always rely on your government to make all those bad guys over the Interwebs go away! We all know that parents can't protect their kids or warn them about this stuff beforehand right? If anything, kids that are on the internet now days have more computer education than most 30 year old's, and this is a growing fact. So if anything, the protection measures need to be in place for education for the parents AND kids and we shouldn't have to rely on a nanny state to swoop in and make it all better unless we want some really nasty social repercussions on our hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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