The UK’s Online Safety Act is live; now for the hard part

The UK’s pioneering regulatory effort on internet safety has provided direction and arrived at a significant consensus on desired outcomes, but has arrived at a set of thorny questions around age assurance and online anonymity. A Westminster eForum event on “Next steps for online safety policy and practice in the UK” sought to clarify what those questions are, and begin to answer them.

Ofcom’s first consultation on implementing the Act closes at the end of February.

Ofcom Online Safety Principal …

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