{"id":523331,"date":"2026-04-10T12:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/523331\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:57:15","slug":"uk-looks-to-hold-tech-execs-personally-liable-for-intimate-image-abuse-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/523331\/","title":{"rendered":"UK looks to hold tech execs personally liable for intimate image abuse \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis Government is uncompromising in our mission to protect women and girls online, and we have taken action to stop tech firms from publishing this abusive content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn February we told\u00a0platforms that they must remove reported non-consensual intimate\u00a0images within 48 hours. Now we are going further by introducing measures meaning that senior tech executives could be criminally liable if their companies fail to act when required to do so by Ofcom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProtecting women and girls online is not optional, it is a responsibility that sits squarely with every tech company\u2019s leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also on Friday the government said it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-laws-to-crackdown-on-harmful-pornography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">criminalize pornography depicting incest<\/a> or adults roleplaying as children, after Tory peer Gabby Bertin tabled several amendments on the issue in the Lords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis Government is uncompromising in our mission to protect women and girls online, and we have taken action&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2980,20622,59,57,58,31507,3714,50,18904,998,471,224,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-523331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-companies","9":"tag-enforcement","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-greatbritain","13":"tag-liz-kendall","14":"tag-media","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-online-safety","17":"tag-platforms","18":"tag-safety","19":"tag-social-media","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}