Control, Child, Protection
Facebook To Allow Third-Party Access To User Info
The news follows the recent controversy over Facebook's refusal to use the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) alert on its social network. MPs including Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman demanded swift action on the issue, but Facebook argued that it already had reporting buttons on its site. [...] Closer inspection of the latest draft of Facebook's privacy policy reveals that the sections on sharing have been updated, reducing the amount of information that is publicly available to just the user's name and profile picture. Facebook has also reserved the right to add special protection for minors and place restrictions on the ability of adults to share and connect with them. [...] Tighter control and child protection. [...]
Facebook Execs To Meet Child Protection Agency
Representatives from the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre are due to meet with Facebook execs amid continuing concerns about the number of children being groomed for potential abuse on the social networking site. [...] Buttons don't help, Facebook says to CEOP child protection body. [...] Facebook Execs To Meet Child Protection Agency. eWEEK Europe UK. [...]
Facebook Reaches Compromise Over CEOP Button
Johnson's statement tallied with Facebook's. We had a frank exchange of views, in which I emphasised that including the Ceop abuse reporting button on their site has the potential to transform child protection and that the company should put this above all other considerations. [...] Tags. Alan Johnson, BeatBullying, ceop, child protection, Facebook, Home Secretary, internet, meeting, outcome, panic button, social networks. [...] The social network has finally agreed to use the child protection button on its site, while launching a PR offensive to boost its child protection credentials. [...]
Facebook Resists CEOP Panic Button
Facebookspokespeople facing the media boiled the issue down to web design versus child protection. While Gamble wants a big button on the site, Facebook argues that it knows best what works. We know about web design and Ceop knows about child protection, a spokesman told the Guardian. [...] Following a meeting with CEOP representatives in Washington, Facebook has announced a 24-hour police hotline, which will pass UK reports to the UK-based CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection) Centre, and a £5 million education and awareness programme. [...] The button had been promoted in February as part of a government campagin for child safety online, but Facebook has argued that its existing policies work well, and that its own tests have shown that this kind of button actually reduces the reporting of abuse, and agreed to put the CEOP link on its existing reporting pages, arguing this would be more effective. [...]
MPs Urge Facebook to Add Child Protection Button
We need swift action on this, said Ms Harman, when an MP raised the question of Facebook during questions on future Commons business, according to a Press Association report. Labour's Madeline Moon asked Ms Harman whether the government can ensure that Facebook uses the CEOP alert - a button which allows children to report suspicious activity directly to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre (CEOP), which was promoted in a government online safty campaign last month. [...] Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman told the house of Commons that ministers would be urging Facebook to adopt a child protection button designed for the UK - even though Facebook argues that it would be counter productive. [...] MPs Urge Facebook to Add Child Protection Button. eWEEK Europe UK. [...]
Home Secretary Meets Facebook Over Child Protection Button
Home Secretary Meets Facebook Over Child Protection Button. [...] Home Secretary Meets Facebook Over Child Protection Button. eWEEK Europe UK. [...] You are here. Home News Goverment IT Home Secretary Meets Facebook Over Child Protection Button. [...]
Facebook Adds Optional Ceop Panic Button
Our dialogue with Facebook about adopting the ClickCeop button is well documented, Today, however, is a good day for child protection, Jim Gamble, the chief executive of Ceop, said in a statement reported in the Guardian. [...] After months of pressure from media and politicians, Facebook has added a child protection panic button , but it is part of the optional ClickCeop application. [...] Facebook has given in to pressure and added the Ceop child protection button - as part of an optional app. [...]
Russian Police And Internet Registry Accused Of Aiding Cybercrime
RBN's systems were used to host child pornography and at its peak, according to SOCA, the organisation hosted around one third of all the pay-per-view child pornography in the world. The rest of the illegal network was devoted to malware including systems to control botnets. [...] Where you have got LIRs (Local Internet Registries) set up to run a criminal business- that is criminal actvity being taken by the regional internet registries themselves. So what we are trying to do is work with them to make internet governance a somewhat less permissive environment for criminals and make it more about protecting consumers and individuals, added Auld. [...] SOCA also attributed some of the blame for failing to prosecute any members of RBN as being down to corruption on the part of police in St.Petersburg who, Auld alleged, appeared to have agreed to protect the criminal gangs behind the network. [...]
Facebook Threatens Lawsuit Against Daily Mail
February saw the launch of the UK government's online safety campaign, advising kids to Zip it, Block it, Flag it and use a panic button which contacts the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre (CEOP) when faced with anything inappropriate online. [...] Facebook has declined to add the CEOP button to its site, arguing that it already has global protection mechanisms beyond that offered by the UK-based agency. [...] The article, published both in print and on the newspaper's website on 10 March, detailed how the journalist, Mark Williams-Thomas who also runs a child protection consultancy posed as a 14-year-old girl online. [...]
EC Welcomes International Domain Names
She gave the examples of online child protection and secure e-commerce as areas where governments should actively be protecting and promoting public interests. However, her focus was on the key role of governments in keeping the internet free and open. [...] Reding also called on governments to take responsibility for protecting the general public's interests in relation to public policy internet issues. She described the IGF as a unique forum where we can engage in open, non-binding and multi-stakeholder dialogue, but emphasised that the success of the forum is largely dependent upon the participation of governments and public administrations, which each must play their special part in the governance of the internet. [...] Viviane Reding hails the arrival of non-Latin domain names, but demands that governments do more to protect public online interests. [...]
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