Britain to launch FBI-style agency in 2013
July 29th, 2011 - 7:26 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 29 (IANS) Britain will launch a crime tackling agency in 2013, built on the lines of America's FBI, officials said.The National Crime Agency will herald "a much tougher ... Read more...
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World’s largest paedophile ring busted, 31 Australians arrested
March 17th, 2011 - 2:02 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar.17 (ANI): The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre have shut down the world's largest Internet paedophile ring and arrested 31 Australian men connected ... Read more...
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Children warned over ’sexting’ risks
February 8th, 2011 - 9:11 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Feb 8 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Teenagers and children have been warned about the dangers of what has become known as ‘sexting’.Sexting is all about sending sexually explicit images to a partner. ... Read more...
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Children, young people warned over dangers of ’sexting’
February 8th, 2011 - 5:07 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 08 (ANI): The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) has warned children and young people about sending sexually explicit images of themselves to others.Ceop has even created a 10-minute ... Read more...
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Facebook paedophile poses as new classmate to groom UK schoolkids
December 31st, 2010 - 4:46 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 31 (ANI): A suspected paedophile has been attempting to groom UK schoolchildren on social networking site Facebook by posing as their new classmate.Warning letters have been sent to hundreds ... Read more...
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More teens exposing explicit images on Internet, prone to paedophiles
November 7th, 2010 - 3:23 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 7 (ANI): A report has revealed that teenagers are increasingly posting explicit images of themselves on the Internet, and consequently at danger from paedophile networks.A report by the Child Exploitation ... Read more...
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Launch of Facebook ‘panic button’ prompts surge in abuse reports
August 13th, 2010 - 1:53 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 13 (ANI): Ever since the launch of the Facebook 'panic button' last month, more than 200 users of the social networking site have reported suspicious behaviour.According to the Child ... Read more...
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Facebook vows new measures against bullying
August 12th, 2010 - 2:36 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 12 (IANS) Social networking website Facebook will develop new security measures to combat a surge in bullying of strangers with offensive messages, termed "trolling" in internet parlance.
Officials at Facebook ... Read more...
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Facebook vows to combat alarming ‘trolling’ abuse trend
August 12th, 2010 - 12:16 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 12 (ANI): Facebook has promised to design new security measures to curb the increasing cyber bullying instances and abuse of strangers online.Engineers at Facebook are reportedly working on new ... Read more...
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Facebook Launches New “Panic Button” To Protect Kids
July 12th, 2010 - 11:38 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
July 12 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In a refreshingly new approach from Facebook toward safety, the social networking site has recently launched a new “panic button” to protect kids in the UK ... Read more...
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Facebook to launch a ‘panic button’ application
July 12th, 2010 - 11:21 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, July 12 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The popular social networking site Facebook is all set to launch a ‘panic button’ application on its site.The company is taking this initiative in an ... Read more...
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Facebook’s panic button to report child abuse
July 12th, 2010 - 6:59 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 12 (IANS) Popular social networking website Facebook will add a "panic button" application which will report child abuse to Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP).
Once installed, the ... Read more...
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Facebook to launch ‘panic button’ to report sex offenders
July 12th, 2010 - 3:30 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 12 (ANI): Facebook is all set to launch a child safety 'panic button' on its site for users to report sexual abuse.The button would help users to report abuse ... Read more...
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Paedophiles ‘increasingly accessing indecent pics of kids from webcams’
July 2nd, 2010 - 4:28 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 2 (ANI): The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) in the UK has issued a warning that paedophiles are increasingly accessing indecent pictures of children from webcams.It said ... Read more...
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Facebook in discussions to install ‘panic button’ link
May 28th, 2010 - 2:06 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 28 (ANI): Social networking site Facebook has confirmed that it is in discussion to install a "panic button" on its pages that would link users directly to the Child ... Read more...
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Facebook ‘rejects’ panic button
April 21st, 2010 - 3:48 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 21 (ANI): Facebook has turned down the offer to adopt or test a button designed to protect children from bullying and abuse, according to police.Officials at the Child Exploitation ... Read more...
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Facebook refuses to add safety buttons
April 14th, 2010 - 2:03 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 14 (ANI): Social networking site Facebook has refused to add safety buttons on each user's profile page saying that the buttons will only 'intimidate' and 'confuse' people.A meeting was ... Read more...
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Facebook urged to add “panic buttons”
April 13th, 2010 - 2:41 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 13 (ANI): Social networking site Facebook has at a meeting in Washington DC been urged by the head of British Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) centre to add ... Read more...
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Facebook ‘ignores users’ panic button demand
April 9th, 2010 - 5:10 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 9 (ANI): UK's top child abuse investigator has revealed that social networking site Facebook is ignoring users' complaints about paedophile threats.According to Jim Gamble, head of the Child Exploitation ... Read more...
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Bebo introduces onscreen panic button to report abuse instantly
November 22nd, 2009 - 12:38 pm ICT by ANI
London, November 22 (ANI): Social networking site Bebo has set up a special onscreen panic button for users to report abuse without delay.The pressing of the button will alert specially trained ... Read more...
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Facebook refuses to embed ‘report abuse’ button
November 19th, 2009 - 2:42 pm ICT by ANI
London, November 19 (ANI): Reports indicate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have refused to embed a "report button" that would allow users to report abuse.According to a report ... Read more...
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Facebook, MySpace, slammed for not introducing ‘help button to protect kids’
November 18th, 2009 - 12:41 pm ICT by ANI
London, November 18 (ANI): Popular social networking websites Facebook and MySpace have come under fire for failing to introduce a help button for children being bullied online.The outrage comes after rival ... Read more...
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