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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ellie Ng

Ofcom boss: Tech firms not given much power over how to protect children online

Sites containing potentially harmful content will have to perform age checks on users as part of the Online Safety Act (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Archive)

Technology companies are not being given much power over measures to provide greater protection to children online, the head of Ofcom has said as she defended upcoming reforms.

The regulator announced last month that sites containing potentially harmful content, like porn sites, will have to perform age checks on users as part of reforms which apply to both dedicated adult sites and social media, search or gaming services as part of the Online Safety Act.

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