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VIDEO: Facebook's 'Neighbourhood Watch'

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Leveson Inquiry: Facebook's 'Neighbourhood Watch'

26 January 2012 Last updated at 17:16 Help

Facebook has "an 800 million-strong Neighbourhood Watch system" to protect against people carrying out malicious acts, the Leveson Inquiry has heard.

Facebook director Lord Richard Allan said the strongest protection against people using false identities on the social network was its community of users.

Lord Allan said privacy "was at the heart of what we're trying to do".

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