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The draft Online Safety Bill establishes a new regulatory framework to tackle harmful content online.
This annual report for the year ending 31 December 2024 has been prepared by Ofcom under section 128 of the Online Safety Act and laid before Parliament.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform makes users’ account details and activity visible to others.
Practical materials for primary and secondary schools to use to train staff to teach about internet safety and harms.
A framework for deeper UK-Japan collaboration across digital infrastructure and technologies, data, digital regulation and digital transformation.
Steps internet infrastructure providers can take to prevent child sexual abuse and terrorism.
DCMS is launching the Media Literacy Taskforce Fund to award grant funding to projects piloting new methods of delivering media literacy interventions to ‘hard to reach’ citizens.
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the UK and Australia in February 2024 to enhance cooperation in online safety and security.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to establish a safe environment for children to positively interact with each other.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to interact, and to share text and other content.
If you manage an online platform that allows user generated content, these 7 steps will help you keep your business and your users safe.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to create anonymous or multiple accounts.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to live stream, or view live streams by others.
Information on the risks end-to-end encryption poses to children if it is implemented on social media messaging platforms without robust safety measures.
These codes provide guidance for companies to help them understand how to mitigate the risks from online terrorist content and activity and child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Guidelines and best practice for the trusted flagger relationship between helplines and online service providers.
Actions developed by the Five Country Ministerial to counter online child sexual exploitation and abuse.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Learn about your responsibilities if you own or manage an online platform or service.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform allows people to search user generated content.
We've announced new rules for tech firms around online harms — below are answers to questions surrounding the Full Government Response.
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