Facebook Launches Safety Advisory Board
Facebook announced it is creating a Facebook Safety Advisory Board to provide advice to the firm on online safety issues. The board will be made up of representatives from five Web safety groups: Childnet International, Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, the Family Online Safety Institute and WiredSafety. The board will meet "regularly" with Facebook to review existing safety resources provided to Facebook users and develop new safety tools. One of the first tasks the board will tackle is an overhaul of the safety content on Facebook's Help Center to provide a more "comprehensive resource with specific educational content for parents, teachers, and teens," Facebook said in a statement released Sunday.
Meanwhile, Broadband for America announced Monday that former FCC Chairman Michael Powell and former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr., D-Tenn., have been named honorary co-chairmen of the group. Broadband for America is made up of Internet service providers, backbone providers, content providers, consumer groups and others, aimed at promoting nationwide access to broadband. "As our country prepares a national broadband plan to bring high-speed Internet to every American, it is critical government and the private sector work together," Powell, who headed the FCC during the Bush administration, said in a statement.
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