55,000 downloads of ‘panic button’ on Facebook [businessandleadership.com]
- Published: 13 August 2010
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre has revealed that there have been 55,000+ downloads of its Facebook ‘panic button’ app. It has so far been used 211 times to report suspicious online behaviour.
Facebook has already been at the centre of cases around paedophile rings and murder. Last year the senior police officer in the UK responsible for child protection online, Jim Gamble, who leads the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, warned that officers have seen a significant increase in complaints from parents and children reporting alleged paedophiles, bullies and hackers who are exploiting the site.
Original calls for a panic button had been rejected by Facebook but eventually the social network gave way and the ClickCEOP app was rolled out on 11 July.
