{"id":37626,"date":"2025-12-16T23:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/uk-sex-offenders-may-have-to-tell-police-about-social-media-and-dating-accounts\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:33:21","slug":"uk-sex-offenders-may-have-to-tell-police-about-social-media-and-dating-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/uk-sex-offenders-may-have-to-tell-police-about-social-media-and-dating-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"UK sex offenders may have to tell police about social media and dating accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood plans to \u2018use full power of the state\u2019 to curb rise in targeted attacks using websites<\/p>\n<p>Convicted sex offenders will be forced to notify police with the details of any dating app and social media accounts or face up to five years in jail, under plans announced by Shabana Mahmood.<\/p>\n<p>In a move intended to help curb the explosion in targeted attacks using websites, the home secretary said \u201cthe full power of the state\u201d would be used to bear down on online abusers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/dec\/16\/sex-offenders-police-social-media-dating-accounts-shabana-mahmood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood plans to \u2018use full power of the state\u2019 to curb rise in targeted attacks using websites Convicted sex offenders will be forced to notify police with the details of any dating app and social media accounts or face up to five years in jail, under plans announced by Shabana Mahmood. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 20:46:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}