{"id":1013039,"date":"2026-06-09T08:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013039"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:41:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:11:39","slug":"big-tech-firms-must-stop-young-people-circulating-nude-images-says-uk-pm-starmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/09\/big-tech-firms-must-stop-young-people-circulating-nude-images-says-uk-pm-starmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Big tech firms must stop young people circulating nude images, says UK PM Starmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big tech firms operating in Britain must stop children circulating nude images on their phones or they will face legislation forcing them to do so, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement is Starmer&#8217;s latest effort to protect children from the harmful impacts of technology. It comes as the Times reported that he is also planning to announce a ban on some social media platforms \u200cfor those aged under \u206016. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today I&#8217;m \u2060calling on tech companies operating in this country to introduce device controls that prevent children from sending and receiving sexually explicit images,&#8221; Starmer said in a speech at London Tech Week. &#8220;This is not an impossible challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big tech firms operating in Britain must stop children circulating nude images on their phones or they will face legislation forcing them to do so, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday. The announcement is Starmer&#8217;s latest effort to protect children from the harmful impacts of technology. It comes as the Times reported that he is also planning to announce a ban on some social media platforms \u200cfor those aged under \u206016. &#8220;Today I&#8217;m \u2060calling on tech companies operating in this country to introduce device controls that prevent children from sending and receiving sexually explicit images,&#8221; Starmer said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013064,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013039\/revisions\/1013064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}