The United Kingdom is expected to pass legislation to hold social media companies more responsible for how it treats and protects children on their platform.
The U.K. Parliament is getting close to passing the Online Safety Bill, a piece of legislation that will make social media companies legally responsible for how children are treated on their platform in the U.K. This includes requiring websites like Facebook and Google to remove illegal content, prevent children from accessing age-inappropriate content, enforcing age limits online and providing parents and children with tools to report problems in the future.Family advocates in the U.K.
One of the amendments presented by the OSB would allow the U.K. communications regulator Ofcom to force tech platforms to scan all encrypted messages for evidence of child sex abuse material. Requiring companies to do so would leave a potential backdoor that hackers could use to breach users' data and negate their end-to-end encryption.
Apple previously considered implementing a similar feature in 2021, only to reverse the decision after privacy advocates spoke out about the feature.
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