04 Nov, 2024 Ofcom issues OSA Consultation on fees & penalties By Naina Patel Faye Harrison Ofcom has released its latest consultation on the Online Safety Act 2023 (the OSA). As the UK's online safety regulator, Ofcom is looking...
31 Oct, 2024 The Online Safety Act turns one: Where are we now? By Kiran Sidhu Rose Lynch Subha Kumar The journey so far 26 October marked the first anniversary of the UK’s Online Safety Act (the Act) receiving Royal Assent. This was the...
24 Oct, 2024 Global online safety: Ireland’s media regulator adopts online safety code for video sharing platforms By Anna Ní Uiginn Faye Harrison With the UK’s Online Safety Act due to start its gradual entry into force in December, we are starting to see online safety taking centre...
21 Oct, 2024 Online Safety Act countdown: Ofcom progress update By Mike Edgar Faye Harrison With two months remaining before the first major set of UK Online Safety Act (OSA) provisions come into force, Ofcom has published an...
21 Oct, 2024 UK and US issue joint statement pledging closer cooperation on children’s online safety By Vivien Zhu Faye Harrison On 10 October 2024, the UK and US governments issued a joint statement announcing the formation of a new joint children’s online safety...
15 Oct, 2024 Safer Phones Bill to be discussed in Parliament this week By Faye Harrison As we await the Online Safety Act's gradual entry into force, with Ofcom expected to finalise its first online safety codes by the end of...
09 Aug, 2024 The Online Safety Act: Misinformed on misinformation By Daniel Owen The role of social media in spreading disinformation and misinformation has brought renewed scrutiny on the Online Safety Act, with Sadiq...
03 Jul, 2024 Deepfakes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly By Daniel Owen We recently attended the Society for Computers & Law event ‘Generative AI & Deepfakes: Understanding the Illusion’. Among plenty of jokes...
16 May, 2024 Online safety: Pushing the boundaries of the Data Protection Top Ten By Faye Harrison Last October saw the introduction of the Online Safety Act, a landmark piece of legislation aimed at significantly improving internet...
23 Feb, 2024 The past week in data protection By Jamie Drucker Time for another round up of the data protection news which caught my eye this week: The ICO has issued new guidance on how organisations...