{"id":482083,"date":"2026-06-08T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/482083\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:52:09","slug":"tech-firms-have-three-months-to-stop-children-seeing-or-sending-explicit-content-starmer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/482083\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech firms have three months to stop children seeing or sending explicit content, Starmer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does the technology exist to ban children from taking explicit images?published at 10:47 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:47 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/34f953a2-7b83-4c3b-bad8-71c3cca03927.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Joe Tidy<br \/>Cyber correspondent<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In short, yes &#8211; but only in limited cases. Apple already uses<br \/>\ntechnology which can detect nudity on devices through its Sensitive Content<br \/>\nWarning system. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Apple devices, nude images received via<br \/>\niMessage, AirDrop, FaceTime video messages and shared photo albums can be<br \/>\nblurred automatically, with users warned: \u201cThis may be sensitive\u201d. Parents can<br \/>\nalso receive alerts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Android has a similar feature, though it currently only works in<br \/>\nGoogle Messages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So the technology already exists for detecting received nude<br \/>\ncontent but the bigger challenge is stopping people from sending them &#8211; which is<br \/>\nfar harder to enforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Much of the Child Sexual Abuse Material involving coerced children<br \/>\nis shared through end-to-end encrypted services such as WhatsApp, Signal,<br \/>\nDiscord and FaceTime, where only the sender and recipient can view messages. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Apple does include FaceTime in its warning system through a workaround,<br \/>\nsuggesting broader protections may be possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But attempts to expand scanning systems have previously sparked<br \/>\nmajor backlash from privacy campaigners concerned about surveillance and<br \/>\nencryption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Does the technology exist to ban children from taking explicit images?published at 10:47 BST 10:47 BST Joe TidyCyber&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-482083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}