Ultimately, we must be able to look parents in the eye and assure them we are doing everything we can to protect their children from harm. Our ambition is to build public trust in the technologies that so many of us rely on. The government’s response to online harms is a key part of our plans to usher in a new age of accountability for tech companies, which is commensurate with the role they play in our daily lives. To unleash growth we need to ensure there is trust in technology. We are taking action to unlock innovation across digital markets, while also ensuring we keep people safe online and promote a thriving democracy, where pluralism and freedom of expression are protected. We are committed to using digital technologies and services to power economic growth across the entire UK, and ensuring a more inclusive, competitive and innovative digital economy for the future. In a month-long period during lockdown, the Internet Watch Foundation and its partners blocked at least 8.8 million attempts by UK internet users to access videos and images of children suffering sexual abuse. The pandemic has also underlined a much more grave problem the risks posed to children online. The pandemic drove a spike in disinformation and misinformation, and some people took advantage of the uncertainty to incite fear and cause confusion. From connecting with loved ones, to the way we do business and deliver public services - almost every part of our lives is at least now partly online.īut the COVID-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on the risks posed by harmful activity and content online.
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