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The Online Safety Act 2023 [1] [2] [3] (c. 50) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to regulate online content. Designed to protect children and adults online, it passed on 26 October 2023 and gives the relevant Secretary of State the power, subject to parliamentary approval, to designate and suppress or record a wide range of online content that is illegal or deemed "harmful" to ...
Online Safety Bill may refer to: Online Safety Act 2023, 2023 United Kingdom legislation; Online Safety Bill (Sri Lanka), 2024 Sri Lanka legislation;
Some politicians and online safety campaigners have repeatedly called for more to be done to protect children from the swathes of harmful content online – including having the Online Safety Bill ...
Campaigners and politicians have clashed over the decision to postpone the Bill’s passage through Parliament until a new prime minister is in place. Online Safety Bill delay sparks row over ...
The Online Safety Bill is currently making its way through Parliament and the Government has published a range of initial proposed amendments to the Bill, including cracking down further on ...
Six years in the making, the U.K.’s Online Safety Bill is now a done deal. The country’s House of Lords passed it yesterday, so it will receive royal assent and pass into law in the coming days.
One of the purposes of the Digital Economy Act 2017 was to introduce a mandatory age verification system for internet pornography. In 2019, following several delays and setbacks, the government repealed the section of the Act that would have introduced the system.
More than four years in the making, the Online Safety Bill in its current form would require social media and other platforms to protect their users.