Ministers must act more quickly on deepfakes to protect women and girls, Kendall says

Liz Kendall: ‘The public is right to put pressure on the government to say we want our kids to be safe, as women, to take these awful images down.’ Photograph: Alecsandra Raluca Drăgoi/DSIT

Ministers need to act more quickly to combat fast-changing threats from technology such as deepfakes, the technology secretary has said, as she warned about the risks women and girls face online.

Liz Kendall said on Monday that technology was developing at such a pace that it was outstripping the government’s ability to regulate it, even suggesting there could be regular annual reviews of regulations as happens at the budget.