UK ICO and Ofcom strengthen cooperation on age assurance

UK’s communications and data privacy watchdogs are strengthening collaboration on regulating child online safety, including age assurance and other technology.

In a joint statement, Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said that the two sides plan to monitor issues of common interest within internet security and data protection.

Aside from age assurance, these so-called collaboration topics include recommender systems that use algorithms to curate content, default and geolocation settings for child users as well as “proactive technology,” which includes …

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