UK gives tech firms three-month ultimatum to block children's access to explicit content or face new laws
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Summary
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced that tech firms have three months to prevent children from accessing or sharing explicit content, or face new legislation. The home secretary has defended the plans against privacy criticisms from campaign group Big Brother Watch, which argues that mandatory ID and surveillance software on phones would make the UK one of the most authoritarian internet regimes in the world. The government maintains it will introduce new laws if companies fail to act quickly to protect children from nude image sharing.
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The government mandating that all phones in Britain require ID and surveillance software is a crossing of the Rubicon that would make the UK one of the most authoritarian internet regimes in the world.
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