"Q This evidence session is underlining to me how complicated these issues are. I am really grateful for your expertise, because we are navigating through a lot of issues. With slight trepidation I open the conversation up into another area—the issue of protection for children. One of the key …..." Maria Miller - View Speech
"Q Can I bring Lorna in here? We are talking about moving from content to the drivers of harm. Where would you suggest that should be achieved within the Bill?
Professor Lorna Woods: I think by an overarching risk assessment rather than one that is broken down into the …..." Maria Miller - View Speech
"Q Thank you so much for coming along. You spoke in your initial comments to my colleague about encryption. The challenges of encryption around child abuse images have been raised with us previously. How can we balance the need to allow people to have encrypted options, if possible, with …..." Maria Miller - View Speech
"Q My main question is about child safety, which is a prime objective for the Government in this legislation. Do you feel that the Bill’s definition of “likely to be accessed by children” should be more closely aligned with the one used in the ICO’s age-appropriate design code?
"Q Do you think any further aspects of the age-appropriate design code should be incorporated into the Bill?
Stephen Almond: We are not seeking to incorporate further aspects of the code into the Bill. We think it is important that the regimes fit together coherently, but that that is …..." Maria Miller - View Speech
"Q Working closely with Ofcom is really good, but do you think there needs to be a duty to co-operate with Ofcom, or indeed with other regulators—to be specified in the Bill—in case relations become more tense in future?
"Q I want to focus on one particular issue, which is anonymity. Kick It Out has done so much with the FA to raise awareness of that issue. I was interested in your views on how the Bill treats that. The Bill mentions anonymity and pseudonymity, but it does …..." Maria Miller - View Speech