Encrypted messaging app warns device-level checks could be repurposed for censorship

In an ultimatum to tech bosses like Apple and Google, Keir Starmer has warned that they must roll out software preventing children from taking, sharing and receiving nude images…

Under the new plans, companies like Apple and Google should build or activate technical solutions on smartphones and tablets to detect and block nude images for children,…

LONDON, June 8 : Big tech firms operating in Britain must introduce safety measures on children's phones to prevent them from circulating nude images or they will face legislation…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer tells Apple, Google and other phone firms to clean up children's phones or face legislation forcing them to do so.

PM Keir Starmer asks tech firms like Apple and Google to install "device-level" features or face fresh laws

Tech bosses could face criminal prosecution if they fail to implement changes

British prime minister Keir Starmer is set to announce a new policy next week that will ban children under 16 from accessing social media platforms, following Australia’s…

If firms do not act, the PM said, ‘we will change the law … when it comes to the safety of our children, standing by is not an option’.

"This government will not stand by while children are put at risk online," said UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. #EuropeNews

The UK wants to make it impossible for children to send or view explicit images. Signal calls it one of the most dangerous surveillance proposals ever.

LONDON: Big tech firms operating in Britain must stop children circulating nude images on their phones or they will...

In practice, the government is demanding that Apple install on-device AI nudity-detection software at the operating system level for iOS and that Google do the same for Android.…

"This is not an impossible challenge," Prime Minister Keir Starmer told delegates at the London Tech Week conference

The UK government is now mandating nudity-blocking software for smartphones sold in the country. I look at why this is a privacy nightmare and the safeguards that must be in place.

Because they care so much about the children...

Encrypted messaging app warns device-level checks could be repurposed for censorship

Whether or not encrypted data would be put at risk comes down to one unknown: Would this analysis happen solely on the device?

Signal critica il piano britannico contro le immagini esplicite sui dispositivi dei minori: rischi per privacy e sicurezza.

The device-scanning proposal was announced by Prime Minister Keir Starmer at London Tech Week. Under the plan, companies such as Apple and Google would be expected to...

Signal president Meredith Whittaker says the app will leave the UK rather than weaken encryption, raising stakes for privacy tech and crypto regulation.