Earlier this month, the United Kingdom rolled out the Online Safety Act, which is meant to force any platform or website that could feasibly host adult content to include some sort of age verification ...

Under the rules of the UK's Online Safety Act, websites with adult or sensitive content operating in the UK must now take comprehensive steps to verify the ages of their users. It's a law that has ...

A new report out today from tech research site Comparitech looking at the U.K.’s Online Safety Act highlights rising concerns over censorship, surveillance and the unintended consequences of the law ...

The UK's controversial Online Safety Act (OSA) passed over a year ago, and ostensibly, it "puts a range of new duties on social media companies and search services, making them more responsible for ...

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On August 21 2025, the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC Chairman) sent letters to more than a dozen major U.S. tech companies including cloud computing, data security and social media ...

If you live in the UK, the way you access the internet is about to fundamentally change. A new law, the Online Safety Act, comes into force on 25 July and will see a broad range of online providers ...

Andrew Wailes is CEO and founder of PlaySafe ID, a digital identity platform that verifies online players through a single secure ID to ensure fair play and to protect children from online predators.

In the next phase of Online Safety Act implementation, children’s safety duties and related codes of practice will come into full effect on 25 July 2025. The UK Online Safety Act (OSA) establishes an ...

The UK’s Online Safety Act became law in October 2023 with the aim to enhance online safety for all internet users, particularly children, by placing obligations on service providers that either host ...

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