Internet: Children
Commons · Question 38225 · Tabled 13 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record
Answered 21 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will put a statutory duty on small websites to prevent putting children at risk of (a) sexual extortion, (b) grooming and (c) generating child sexual abuse images.
Answer
Answered by Feryal Clark, 21 Mar 2025
The Online Safety Act creates new duties on online services to protect users from being harmed by illegal content and activity. The strongest duties are to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation (CSEA) and to stop child sexual abuse material ...