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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2018-12-04more like thismore than 2018-12-04
answering body
Home Office remove filter
answering dept id 1 more like this
answering dept short name Home Office more like this
answering dept sort name Home Office more like this
hansard heading Offences against Children: Social Media remove filter
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons remove filter
question text To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) outcomes and (b) agreements were that he reached on online child grooming with representatives of (i) Microsoft, (ii) Facebook, (iii) Google, (iv) Snap and (v) Twitter on his recent visit to the US. more like this
tabling member constituency Hendon more like this
tabling member printed
Dr Matthew Offord more like this
uin 198815 more like this
answer
answer
is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2018-12-12more like thismore than 2018-12-12
answer text <p>Between 6-8 November, the Home Secretary held a series of meetings with Microsoft, Twitter, and Snap, Google and Facebook. In those meetings, the Home Secretary reiterated his personal commitment to tackle child sexual abuse and exploitation and reinforced his key demands of tech companies, which he set out in his speech on combating child sexual exploitation and abuse at the NSPCC on 3 September.</p><p>The Home Secretary also pushed for increased transparency across all their efforts to tackle abuses of their platforms and stressed the need for companies to demonstrate they were enforcing their terms and conditions.</p><p>The companies affirmed their commitment to tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse on their platforms; set out steps they are taking to develop new technologies and policies to make their platforms safer; and agreed to continue to engage closely with the government on taking further actions to detect grooming (including sharing appropriate information with partners and deploying new tools) that were appropriate for their platforms.</p>
answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle more like this
answering member printed Victoria Atkins more like this
question first answered
less than 2018-12-12T17:33:21.227Zmore like thismore than 2018-12-12T17:33:21.227Z
answering member
4399
label Biography information for Victoria Atkins more like this
tabling member
4006
label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord remove filter
1019942
registered interest false more like this
date less than 2018-12-04more like thismore than 2018-12-04
answering body
Home Office remove filter
answering dept id 1 more like this
answering dept short name Home Office more like this
answering dept sort name Home Office more like this
hansard heading Offences against Children: Social Media remove filter
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons remove filter
question text To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to encourage social media companies to tackle the grooming of young children on the platforms of those companies. more like this
tabling member constituency Hendon more like this
tabling member printed
Dr Matthew Offord more like this
uin 198816 more like this
answer
answer
is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2018-12-12more like thismore than 2018-12-12
answer text <p>Tackling online grooming is one of our highest priorities, and we are in-creasing our investment in law enforcement and legislating on online harms to bear down on the threat. In November the Home Secretary also co-hosted a ‘Hackathon’ in the US, where tech companies developed an artificial intelligence product to detect online grooming that will be licensed free of charge to technology companies worldwide.</p> more like this
answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle more like this
answering member printed Victoria Atkins more like this
question first answered
less than 2018-12-12T17:34:11.253Zmore like thismore than 2018-12-12T17:34:11.253Z
answering member
4399
label Biography information for Victoria Atkins more like this
tabling member
4006
label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord remove filter