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Clarify Online Safety Bill obligations for connected devices and voice assistants surfacing harmful content.
Recommendation
The Government should clarify the obligations in the Online Safety Bill for voice assistants, connected devices (like smart speakers) and other emerging technologies that can surface harmful content, to ensure that those that integrate search services in particular fall in-scope of the duties. It should also set out in its response to this report how the online safety regime will categorise voice assistants and connected devices that integrate internet search so that they do not service harmful content like hate speech and other harms.
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Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 24 November 2023. Response attribution to this recommendation has not been verified. Read the response document.
Source
Committee
Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Report
Tenth Report - Connected tech: smart or sinister?
07 Aug 2023
HC 157
Addressee Bodies
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Timeline
Recommendation age
3.1 yrs
Report published
07 Aug 2023