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Connected tech: Smart or sinister?: CMS Committee publishes Government response to report
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee has today published the Government response to the first report from its inquiry Connected tech: smart or sinister?
- Read the Government Response
- Read the full report
- Find all publications related to this inquiry, including oral and written evidence
The report, published in August, called on the Government to make tackling ‘tech abuse’ a priority, amid a warning that the use of smart technology and connected devices in facilitating domestic abuse is becoming a growing problem.
Among its responses to the Committee’s recommendations, the Government says that it accepts the need to make tackling tech abuse a priority and agrees that the police and criminal justice service needs to develop more skills in the area. The recommendation that the Office for Product Safety and Standards should convene a tech abuse working group with stakeholders is however rejected.
The Government is still to respond to the Committee’s second report on connected tech.
Original article link: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/378/culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/198637/connected-tech-smart-or-sinister-cms-committee-publishes-government-response-to-report/