A UK court has refused to grant exemption to Wikipedia from the Online Safety Act, asking Ofcom to determine its fate.

Wikipedia has lost a legal challenge to new Online Safety Act rules which it says could threaten the human rights and safety ...

The UK Online Safety Act requires age verification for anyone seeking to access "adult" content, even if it's educational.

Outrage over the Online Safety Act’s age-verification mandates has tended thus far to focus on amusing, if frustrating, ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, which manages Wikipedia, failed in its court challenge against sections of the United Kingdom's Online Safety Act but was given permission to challenge any decision that ...

There are concerns over a decision by YouTube to enforce ID verification for some users on their platform. Meanwhile, some social media experts say there has to be a balance between protecting ...

Silicon Valley has generally pooh-poohed regulators as getting in the way of both moving fast and breaking things. However, it’s regulators who are trying to work around policies designed for analog ...

In some ways, the government’s decision to press ahead with its Online Safety Act is admirable. After all, the main reason ...

A newly enforced U.K. law mandating age verification on adult sites and certain other online platforms has triggered a backlash from both domestic internet ...

Mandatory scanning of our private chats might be coming next as the Online Safety Bill gets fully enforced. Here's all you need to know.

The primary concern with proxies concerning the UK’s age verification checks is that, unlike VPNs, they don’t encrypt your ...

Activists pressure payment processors, who in turn pressure game marketplaces. The result? A whole lot of video games and ...