{"id":126577,"date":"2025-11-07T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126577\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:27:07","slug":"uk-set-to-ban-deepfake-nudification-apps-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126577\/","title":{"rendered":"UK set to ban deepfake \u2018nudification\u2019 apps \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners have long argued that the issue\u00a0of\u00a0nudification\u00a0apps more broadly needs addressing.<\/p>\n<p>The House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee\u00a0recommended\u00a0in a <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm5901\/cmselect\/cmwomeq\/336\/report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report<\/a> in March\u00a0that both the creation and use of\u00a0nudification\u00a0apps should be criminalized.\u00a0The government responded\u00a0at the time\u00a0saying it was \u201cactively looking at options\u201d \u2014 but said the complexity of the issue\u00a0warranted\u00a0\u201ccareful consideration.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Children\u2019s Commissioner\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk\/news-and-blogs\/press-notice-childrens-commissioner-calls-for-immediate-ban-of-ai-apps-that-enable-deepfake-sexual-abuse-of-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has also called for a total ban<\/a>,\u00a0warning such tools\u00a0disproportionately target girls and young women and contribute \u201cto a culture of misogyny both online and offline\u201d and that the creation of harmful content is \u201ceasier than ever\u201d thanks to generative AI.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Tackling VAWG\u00a0Strategy was due to be published by the summer but is now not expected until the new year, one of the people cited above \u2014 and granted anonymity to discuss sensitive discussions \u2014 said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the Commons\u00a0on Wednesday, Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips blamed the delay on needing to make the strategy \u201cas good as it can be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Home Office spokesperson\u00a0said:\u00a0\u201cWe are committed to tackling violence against women and girls in\u00a0all of\u00a0its forms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going further than before to deliver a cross-government transformative approach to halve violence against women and girls. Our new VAWG strategy, which will be published as soon as possible, will set out the strategic direction and\u00a0concrete actions to deliver on the government\u2019s ambition to halve VAWG in a decade,\u201d they added.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaigners have long argued that the issue\u00a0of\u00a0nudification\u00a0apps more broadly needs addressing. The House of Commons Women and Equalities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[218,61,8869,60,74561,202,74489,80,303],"class_list":{"0":"post-126577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-intelligence","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jess-phillips","13":"tag-mobile","14":"tag-policing","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}