After years of controversy over its privacy controls, Facebook has finally stepped up to the plate and is launching the UK’s largest ever online safety campaign.

fb-report-profile-1The initiative is designed to better protect Facebook’s 23 million UK users and give them greater control over their own safety online. 

The campaign consists of a number of elements including a redesigned abuse reporting system, a £5 million investment in education and awareness and improved cooperation with police.

The social network has also called on the government to consider new ways in which information about registered sex offenders can be securely shared with social networks – a model widely deployed by the US States which has effectively removed dangerous individuals from access to such services.

Children’s Charities’ Coalition on Internet Safety (CHIS) and the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) will be included in the group of organisations using Facebook to communicate important information about online protection. Read the rest of this entry »