Facebook rules out installing 'panic button'
Facebook says it will not install a "panic button" on its main pages for users to report suspected paedophiles, but will develop its existing system.
The company says it will have links to organisations including the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) centre on its reporting pages.
But the director of Ceop says there should be a button on every page.
The conviction of Peter Chapman for the murder of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall led to renewed calls for a "panic button".
The convicted sex offender lured the teenager to her death using Facebook.
Earlier, the Home Secretary said Facebook executives had told him they had "no objection in principle" to installing the safety button.
Peter Chapman, 33, was jailed for at least 35 years this month for killing Ashleigh Hall last October.
She was raped, suffocated and her body dumped in a field near Sedgefield, County Durham, after agreeing to meet Chapman.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8574727.stm
The company says it will have links to organisations including the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) centre on its reporting pages.
But the director of Ceop says there should be a button on every page.
The conviction of Peter Chapman for the murder of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall led to renewed calls for a "panic button".
The convicted sex offender lured the teenager to her death using Facebook.
Earlier, the Home Secretary said Facebook executives had told him they had "no objection in principle" to installing the safety button.
Peter Chapman, 33, was jailed for at least 35 years this month for killing Ashleigh Hall last October.
She was raped, suffocated and her body dumped in a field near Sedgefield, County Durham, after agreeing to meet Chapman.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8574727.stm
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