Under pressure from privacy and child-protection groups, Facebook has redone and expanded its “Safety Center,” taking input from various organizations to tackle cyberbullying and other hot-button, online security issues.
“In our online safety efforts, we learn from and with the most trusted safety organizations in the world,” said Joe Sullivan, Facebook’s chief security officer, in a blog post today. “We regularly invite authors to blog about safety topics from cyberbullying to the importance of ‘Thinking Before Your Post.’ ”
The Safety Center is divided into five main sections: General Safety; Safety for Educators; Safety for Law Enforcers, Safety for Parents and Safety for Teens.
Facebook has had to deal with various safety and security issues, including controversial new privacy policy revisions and an ongoing battle with hackers and phishing emails that overrun user accounts and try to steal passwords.
Scammers also have been creating bogus fan or group pages in attempts of snatching personal information from users, common techniques used in identity theft and credit card fraud cases.
“You’ll see content organized by audience type and by topics such as ‘Addressing Personal Safety’ and ‘Responding to Objectionable Content.’ Parents will find special content in the ‘Safety for Parents’ section with advice from our partner and member of our Safety Advisory Board, Common Sense Media,” Sullivan said.
Security on all levels of the internet needs to be addressed. One company showed how easy it is to locate someone who owns an ID theft company
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