Ofcom, the communications watchdog, pays 20 of its staff more than the Prime Minister’s salary despite repeated criticism of its performance, new figures show. Dame Melanie Dawes, the chief ...

Children will be prevented from encountering adult content and protected from other types of harmful content under Ofcom’s new industry guidance which sets out how it expects sites and apps to ...

Telecoms providers are now required to clearly state upfront any price increases linked to inflation in customer contracts, a move by Ofcom aimed at protecting consumers from the unpredictability of ...

Regulator Ofcom said this made it near impossible for consumers to accurately estimate what they would pay and prevented Brits from shopping around and comparing deals from different providers.

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After assessing the complaints, Ofcom said it told TalkTV to “take extra care to ensure that potentially highly offensive comments are editorially justified”. The volume of complaints received ...

Ofcom’s guidance said services which allow pornography or other adult content will be required to introduce age assurance tools, for example photo ID matching, facial age estimation or credit ...

Ofcom, the online regulator, will announce guidance social media firms must follow to make sure their users are not under age. As many as 60% of eight to 11-year-olds have social media profiles ...