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Facebook has partnered with the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) to create a "panic button" application for the popular social networking hub, officials announced on Monday morning.The "panic button" will appear on a user's profile page when it is added or bookmarked, and is designed to allow users between the ages of 13 and 18 to notify Facebook officials if they encounter "suspicious or inappropriate behavior," according to a report...

Officials from a child protection agency met with Facebook representatives on Monday in an effort to try and convince the social networking website to add a "panic button" for children.Jim Gamble, chief executive of the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), met with Facebook chief security officer Joe Sullivan in Washington D.C. for four hours yesterday, and while the networking agency has agreed to implement a series of new protections for younger users, they...

A GLOBAL investigation into internet child abuse has spread to Northern Ireland, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal. The PSNI arrested a man in a major inquiry into an online paedophile forum in the UK as investigators said they believe they will locate thousands of subscribers to the internet site around the world. Details of the inquiry came to light following the jailing of the internet forum's 'librarian' at Teeside Crown Court in England earlier this week. Philip Anthony Thompson (27)...