Question follow-through · 69725
Artificial Intelligence: Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to use artificial intelligence to bypass end-to-end encryption to reduce access to the livestreaming of child abuse.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 21 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 1 Sept 2025 · 42 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to use artificial intelligence to bypass end-to-end encryption to reduce access to the livestreaming of child abuse.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
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1 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Home Office is actively developing options to support more systematic and effective deployment of such technology to fully mitigate harms to children from producing and sharing such imagery. This includes actively considering requirements on device op...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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