British police criticise Facebook safety record after Ashleigh Hall murder
Posted in: Child protection at 10/03/2010 00:06
Senior police officers clashed with the UK's most-used social networking site today, accusing Facebook of ignoring worrying trends that it is providing a safe haven for predatory paedophiles by refusing to sign up to a "panic button" for children and young people.
Jim Gamble, chief executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Unit (Ceop), was joined by the country's lead officer on homicide to tackle the site about its repeated refusal to sign up to a key safety practice adopted by many other similar websites.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/09/ashleigh-hall-murder-facebook-security
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Paedophile 'alarm button' was rejected by Facebook, say police
Senior police officers last night accused Facebook of having inadequte child protection safeguards following the rape and murder of teenager who met her killer on the networking site.
Peter Chapman, a convicted sex offender, used Facebook to lure 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall to her death. Chapman, 33, set up a fake profile on the site - complete with stolen photographs - to pretend he was a boy of 19.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/paedophile-alarm-button-was-rejected-by-facebook-say-police-1918838.html