United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 52103
Internet: Safety
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1 June 2020
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11 June 2020 · Answer
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11 June 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to protect people with epilepsy from being targeted by social media posts designed to trigger a seizure with flashing images; and if he will bring forward amendme
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1 June 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to protect people with epilepsy from being targeted by social media posts designed to trigger a seizure with flashing images; and if he will bring forward amendme
Source: Commons
11 June 2020
Answer
The government intends to introduce world-leading Online Harms legislation to make the UK the safest place to be online. We intend to establish in law a new duty of care on companies towards their users which will be overseen by an independent regulator. ...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-06-01/52103
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1199013
- uk · wq-1199013 · source updated 11 June 2020