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イギリスのケール・スター默首相は、AppleやGoogleなどのテクノロジー企業に対し、9月までに子供が露骨な画像を撮影したり共有したり見たりできないようにするデバイスレベルの保護機能を導入するよう命じた。同首相は、「3ヶ月以内に遵守しない場合、英国で販売されるすべての携帯電話とタブレットにこの保護機能が追加されることになる法律が制定されます」と述べている。技術企業が非協力的な場合は罰金を科せられ、経営陣も刑事責任を問われる可能性がある。
首相は「今日、この国で事業を行っているテクノロジー企業に対し、子供が性的に露骨な画像を送信や受信できないようにする機能の導入を求めています。これは不可能な挑戦ではありません」と述べた。「彼らが選択しなければ、我々は行動します。法律を作り変えることもします」。
この提案は、オンラインセーフティ法案と並行して実施される予定で、後者は子供にとって違法または有害なコンテンツの削除プロセスを要求している。
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has given Apple, Google, and other tech firms until September to introduce device-level protections that prevent children from taking, sharing, or viewing explicit images. "If businesses do not comply within three months, legislation will be brought forward requiring the protection to be added to all phones and tablets sold in the UK," reports The Guardian. "Tech firms that fail to do so could face fines, and their senior managers could be made criminally liable." From the report: "Today, I am calling on tech companies operating in this country to introduce vice controls that prevent children from sending and receiving sexually explicit images. Because this is not an impossible challenge," he said. "If they choose not, then we will act and we will change the law." [...] Under the changes, sexual predators will be prevented from being able to exploit and abuse victims through their devices, and children stopped from being able to access pornography, the Home Office said. Adults will still be able to take, share or view nude content once they have verified their age.
In the Commons, Melanie Ward, the Labour MP for Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy, said: "It's time to stop asking social media companies to make their products safe, and instead time to start requiring them to do so through regulation." Clive Efford, the Labour MP for Eltham and Chislehurst, said the "sociopaths" running social media platforms had no concern for the welfare of children. "The only message that they're going to listen to is if there's legislation put before this house that is going to act and send a clear message to them." The proposal is designed to sit alongside the Online Safety Act, which requires companies to have processes for removing material that is illegal or harmful to children.
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