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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
David Lynch

No online platform gets ‘free pass’ when it comes to child safety, says Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall have hailed plans by the Government to bolster online safety (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Archive)

No online platform will get a “free pass” when it comes to children’s safety on the internet, Sir Keir Starmer has said, ahead of setting out new plans to prevent harms.

Children could be prevented from using virtual private networks (VPNs) to illicitly access pornography, and limited from speaking with online chatbots under proposals being floated by the Prime Minister to bolster online safety.

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