Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Victoria Atkins and Neil Parish

Monday 12th July 2021 Commons Chamber

[Victoria Atkins]

The implementation of end-to-end encryption in a way that intentionally blinds tech companies to content on their platforms will have a disastrous impact on public safety, and we remain seriously concerned with Facebook’s end-to-end encryption proposals. The safety and security of the public is at the heart of this issue, and Facebook must continue to work with us to embed the safety of the public in its system designs. Companies have a responsibility to prevent the proliferation of child sexual abuse imagery and to protect children from predators on their platforms.

[Neil Parish (Tiverton and Honiton) (Con)]

What steps her Department is taking to tackle scam callers.