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What you need to do now that the eCommerce Directive no longer applies to the UK.
Find out if you need to register for the tax if your group provides a social media platform, search engine or online marketplace to UK users.
Online Centres Network offers free internet access, computer training courses for beginners and advice getting online - often free, or at low cost
This page brings together advice from social media platforms about online 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.
Guidance on the examination stage for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
How to meet your new sponsor and their family, while staying safe online. Also information about how to stay safe in the UK.
This is a guide for providers of social media and interactive services and includes examples of good practice and advice and information about how to keep children safe online
A government introduction to social media; from aiding research to the ethical considerations of using such platforms.
Guidance on the pre-application stage for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
The Code of Practice offers guidance to providers of social media platforms on appropriate actions they should take to prevent bullying, insulting, intimidating and humiliating behaviours on their sites.
Information for manufacturers of medical devices about reporting adverse incidents and field safety corrective actions to the MHRA.
The CDEI has published a report on the role of AI in addressing misinformation on social media platforms, which details the findings from an expert forum it convened last year, with representatives from platforms, fact-checking organisations, media groups, and academia....
Analysis of questions from the Community Life Survey 2020/21 related to Identity and Social Networks
Licensing bodies and collective management organisations can agree licences with users on behalf of owners and collect any royalties the owners are owed.
Disclosure and Barring Service's social media house rules outline how we will engage with customers and the behaviours we expect from users.
Find out how internet scams work and what to be aware of - misleading websites, report website fraud, suspicious communication and phishing
Guide for schools on how terrorist groups such as ISIL use social media to encourage travel to Syria and Iraq.
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