Protect Children Without Turning Phones Into Surveillance Devices. — 7 signatures. Status: rejected.
Amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill would mandate phone monitoring and identity checks to use a privacy tools, crossing a serious civil-liberty line.
Recent amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill would require monitoring capability to be built into smartphones and could force people to prove their identity to access privacy tools. While protecting children is vital, embedding surveillance and identity-linking into personal devices by law creates permanent infrastructure that can be expanded later. This petition calls on Parliament to protect children without mandating phone monitoring or surveillance-by-design.
View this petition on the official UK Parliament website