MP Maria Miller wants a parliamentary debate on whether digitally generated nude images need to be banned.
It comes as another service which allows users to undress women in photos, using Artificial intelligence (AI), spreads rapidly on social media.
The website in question had more than five million visits in June alone, according to one analyst.
Celebrities, including an Olympic athlete, are among those who users claim to have nudified.
The pair posed as AstraZeneca investors and filmed Piers Corbyn accepting money to stop spreading misinformation about the jab.
Regulator Ofcom has announced Anna-Sophie Harling will be its online safety principal, dealing with how the tech giants regulate harmful speech.
She will be in charge of implementing the Online Safety Bill, due to come into effect later this year if approved by Parliament.
Ofcom will be able to fine tech firms that fail to remove offending content up to 10% of their global revenue.
But one expert said this would require "bold leadership".
Ms Harling will be part of a team reporting into Ofcom's chief executive Melanie Dawes.
Dozens of councils are using privately developed software to "mass profile" benefit claimants, privacy campaigners say.
The algorithms, designed to predict fraud and rent arrears, "treat the poor with suspicion and prejudice", according to Big Brother Watch.
'Tyler noticed that when he typed phrases about Black content in his Marketplace creator bio, such as “Black Lives Matter” or “Black success,” the app flagged his content as “inappropriate.” But when he typed in phrases like “white supremacy” or “white success,” he received no such warning.'
July 21
Updated statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment.
Here's a summary by the Education People of the key online safety requirements for schools and colleges.
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