{"id":984196,"date":"2026-01-09T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984196"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:53:02","slug":"tech-firms-must-block-unsolicited-nude-images-under-new-uk-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/09\/tech-firms-must-block-unsolicited-nude-images-under-new-uk-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech firms must block unsolicited nude images under new UK rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology companies in Britain will be required to block \u200dunsolicited sexual images under \u200bonline safety rules taking effect on Thursday, as governments \u2060worldwide step up efforts to curb abuse and risks linked to artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>Cyberflashing has been a criminal offence in England and Wales since January 2024, with \u200cperpetrators facing \u200cup to two years in prison. <\/p>\n<p>It has now become a priority offence under Britain&#8217;s Online \u200cSafety Act, which sets tough requirements on platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and X, as well as dating apps and sites hosting pornography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology companies in Britain will be required to block \u200dunsolicited sexual images under \u200bonline safety rules taking effect on Thursday, as governments \u2060worldwide step up efforts to curb abuse and risks linked to artificial intelligence. Cyberflashing has been a criminal offence in England and Wales since January 2024, with \u200cperpetrators facing \u200cup to two years in prison. It has now become a priority offence under Britain&#8217;s Online \u200cSafety Act, which sets tough requirements on platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and X, as well as dating apps and sites hosting pornography.<\/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-984196","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\/984196","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=984196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}