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The Online Safety Bill is a new set of laws to protect children and adults online. It will make social media companies more responsible for their users’ safety on their platforms.
What you need to do now that the eCommerce Directive no longer applies to the UK.
Find out what online harms are, how to manage them, and where to report them if they occur.
Online Safety Act receives Royal Assent putting rules to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online into law.
How safe platform design can protect your users from online harms and prepare your business or organisation for future legislation.
Raft of voices below have thrown their support behind Act protecting children from online harm, while empowering adults with more choices over what they see online.
This page provides a guide for those interested in key upcoming digital regulatory activity being explored, developed or implemented by government. It covers a range of governance activities, from legislative change to the development of co-regulatory and self-regulatory frameworks.
Guidance including contingency arrangements for our online system for civil and family certificated legal aid work.
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.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform makes users’ account details and activity visible to others.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to interact, and to share text and other content.
We've announced new rules for tech firms around online harms — below are answers to questions surrounding the Full Government Response.
Use the online service to get a UK document legalised.
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 harms if your online platform allows people to search user generated content.
A competition to award funding aimed at accelerating innovation within the legal services sector and the growth of lawtech in the UK.
Information for competent authorities abroad (and in the UK) about obtaining evidence within the UK (or abroad) to assist in criminal investigations or proceedings.
How online marketplaces will deal with VAT for goods from overseas that are sold to customers in the UK.
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