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

The Online Safety Act aims to force tech firms to take more responsibility for the content on their platforms. Ofcom has the power to fine companies that break the rules up to 10% of their global ...

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 ...

Children will be prevented from encountering adult content and protected from other types of harmful content under Ofcom’s ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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