As did UK members of Parliament, US Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is now calling on Facebook to create a "panic button" for the US like the one FB's putting in place for UK users, reports HometownSource.com in Minnesota. Only it's not a "button" or a 9-1-1-type helpline; it's an app that users would need to download, as I wrote earlier this week. So it needs marketing to create uptake, which is fine – … [Read more...] about US senator calls for Facebook ‘panic button’ too
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New child-safety ‘hotline’ in Facebook for UK users
What has been widely referred to as a "panic button" for Facebook is now in place for the site's some 23 million users in the UK. CEOP – the UK's law enforcement organization that deals with online child exploitation, which for months has been pushing Facebook to create it – seems to have thought of it as a kind of 9-1-1 button (9-9-9 in the UK) for the social Web, a worthy concept for multiple … [Read more...] about New child-safety ‘hotline’ in Facebook for UK users
What Facebook does with abuse reports
The head of Facebook's international law enforcement group, Max Kelly, Friday revealed more details than I've seen in the news media on how the site detects bad behavior and content, including criminal activity. On the prevention side, The Guardian reports, "Facebook has developed sophisticated algorithms to monitor its users and detect inappropriate and predatory behaviour, bolstering its latest … [Read more...] about What Facebook does with abuse reports
Facebook: Why a Safety Center, not a ‘panic button’
The Facebook news in the US today was its new expanded Safety Center. The news in Britain was that Facebook "STILL refuses to install [a] 'panic button'" on its pages, as the UK's Daily Mail put it. However, Facebook also announced today that its UK users will "now be able to report unwanted or suspicious contact directly to CEOP [the UK's Child Exploitation & Online Protection Center] and … [Read more...] about Facebook: Why a Safety Center, not a ‘panic button’