UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced plans to establish additional protections for children online at the UK Tech Conference and Exhibition on Munday 8th June 2026.
The plans would prevent children from taking, sharing or viewing naked images on their devices. New requirments would be placed on Apple and Google to activate their built-in features or implement technical solutions on smartphones and tablets to detect and block nude images for children.
The decision to take such action was, in part, a result of research undertaken by the Internet Watch Foundation. Their data indicated that 91% of online child sexual abuse reports recorded in 2024 contained self-generated content from children themselves and the average child now views pornography by age 13.
Sexting can directly lead to sexploitation and evidence shows that this activity has reached very high levels of activity in recent years.
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