Starmer's Three-Month Deadline For Apple, Google Expires Today
Downing Street set the ultimatum on June 8, ordering nude-image blocking built into every phone and tablet children use by default.
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and tech chief Liz Kendall issued the order alongside Starmer.
- 91% of 2024 child sexual abuse reports involved images children took of themselves.
- SafeToNet already built the blocking tech; miss the deadline and executives risk criminal charges.
Why it matters: A government that can order a phone to police its owner has already decided who really controls it.
UK Government (DSIT/Home Office), 'New plans to stop children taking, sharing or viewing nude images' ↗ · Sep 8, 20269/8/26