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Facebook and UK Child Protection centre launch 'panic button' app -- and browser add-ons
The UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop), in association with a bullied and submissive Facebook, has launched a new app that aims to safeguard the burgeoning population of child surfers. The app's called ClickCoep and it takes the form of a bookmark or tab on your Facebook profile page.According to the BBC, Ceop and Facebook have been at loggerheads for some time. Facebook, claiming its built-in reporting system was enough, initially resisted Ceop's panic button app -- but after a 33-year-old utilized Facebook to rape and murder a 17-year-old, it seems they've finally allowed Ceop to have its button.
As for the app itself, I'd be lying if I said it was very good. Basically, you get a Facebook page that links through to the Ceop Report Centre. I can't see any obvious integration with Facebook, but perhaps it happens behind the scenes.
In fact, the Facebook implementation seems to pale in comparison to the Chrome, IE8 and Firefox add-ons that are also available on the Ceop site. They provide the same 'report centre' functionality, without the need to faff around a Facebook app.
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Subscribe to commentsbox750Jul 12th 2010 4:26PM
Facebook already has a reporting mechanism, I don't see how this garbage is going to help anyone.
The UK ISPs have also been known to block Wikipedia on the advice of the Government, I would no trust any UK internet agency with a dollar lets alone with policing Facebook.
michas_piJul 13th 2010 2:38AM
Nanny state! Nanny state!
jackrossJul 14th 2010 7:46AM
This panic button should have been introduced much earlier in the facebook. Anyways!! better late than never...