Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 December 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Ms Siobhán Cummiskey:

On the issue of takedowns, every piece of information on Facebook can be reported to us. If a child or parent reports content he or she is concerned about where the child is depicted, including the videos we discussed earlier, we will remove it. We also work with trusted partners and have a trusted partner channel that is very important. It partners with local non-governmental organisations which give us a lot of information on content they are concerned about that may not have been removed or give input on policies they think could be better. We use that information to help us improve the policies and takedowns.