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UK Online Safety Act comes into force today

From today, online platforms must start putting in place measures to protect people in the UK from criminal activity, while Ofcom has launched its latest enforcement programme to assess industry compliance.

As deadline passes to carry out illegal harms risk assessments, sites and apps must now start tackling criminal content Ofcom launches enforcement programme into child sexual abuse imagery on file-sharing services From today, online platforms must start putting in place measures to protect people in the UK from criminal activity, while Ofcom has launched its latest enforcement programme to assess industry compliance. Given the acute harm caused by the spread of online child sexual abuse material (CSAM), assessing providers’ compliance with their safety duties in this area has been identified as one of our early priorities for enforcement.

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