Social media giants and adult sites which fail to introduce age checks ‘can expect enforcement action’, says Ofcom executive ...

Research from the Children's Commissioner for England in January 2023 found that on average, children in the UK first see ...

The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has today moved forward with implementation of the government's tedious new ...

Under the new rules, services hosting pornography must introduce robust age verification checks by July 2025. This includes services that publish their own pornographic content, as well as ...

Online safety laws must constantly adapt along with technology, a minister has said, following criticism from Molly Russell's ...

The sites are some of the most popular for accessing the X-rated material, but an Ofcom crackdown on age ... In even stricter measures, under the Online Safety Act, all social media and search ...

Tory MP says regulator is failing and its executives should not be paid such high salaries if ‘they can’t deliver’ ...

PornHub and other popular adult websites blocked access to their sites in large parts of the US after similar age ...

The father of a teenage girl who killed herself after looking at harmful social media content has told Sir Keir Starmer that ...

Online platforms have three months to assess the risk of their users encountering illegal content and implement safety measures or face prosecution.

It gives Ofcom the power to fine firms that fail ... In December, the regulator published the first set of online safety rules, legally requiring platforms to assess the risk of illegal content ...