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UK strategy avoids urging tech firms to add device-level nudity-blocking tools

By Patricia Figueiredo ( December 18, 2025, 14:59 GMT | Insight) -- The UK’s new strategy to tackle violence against women and girls, published Thursday, steers away from calls to encourage device-level nudity-blocking tools, despite ministerial claims that children should be unable to take, share or view nude images on their devices. The government instead said it's “working constructively with companies” to achieve such a goal, and confirmed a ban on nudification apps used to create AI intimate images. The long-awaited UK government plan to tackle violence against women and girls stopped short of pushing for operating-system-level requirements on tech companies, despite ministers’ ambitions to make it “impossible” for children to "take, share or view nude images on their devices."...

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