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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Martyn Landi

Ofcom criticised over ‘checklist’ approach to Online Safety Act

The largest tech platforms have to follow Ofcom’s codes of practice on issues such as illegal content and protecting children from online harm (PA) - (PA Wire)

A regulator has been accused of a “lack of ambition” over the Online Safety Act, with one charity warning that tech sites can do less on safety and still comply with the new rules because of a “checklist” approach.

Andy Burrows, chief executive of the Molly Rose Foundation, said new online safety laws have some “pretty clear systemic weaknesses” in how Ofcom is implementing them, and called for the Government to intervene and create a strengthened version of the Act.

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