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Facebook backs away from CEOPS panic button

Facebook backs away from CEOPS panic button

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Facebook seems to have backtracked once again on pleas for it to install a panic button on its site, that might - just might - help kids avoid online encounters with paedophiles Yesterday, after being leaned on the the Briitish Home Secretary, Facebook said it had "no objections" to added the button to the pages. Some quoted Facebook as saying "No objections, in principle." It seems that, in practice, the button is a step too far for the social notworking site. The...



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Social noodling-about site, Facebook has agreed to install the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre's panic button after a visit from the Home Secretary Alan Johnson. The site miffed the authorities demanding...


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The UK Government plans to install the CEOP button otherwise known as Panic button onto more than 270,000 home access scheme computers across Britain. This will allow children to instantly report any offensive and obscene...

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