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Ofcom is the UK's communications regulator, overseeing broadcasting, telecoms, and online safety enforcement under the Online Safety Act.
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Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says the UK's under-16 social media ban, due in March, is only a staging post toward a more interventionist state. Platforms preparing for that deadline are building for a first tranche, with more promised by the minister now in charge.
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Lisa Nandy told MPs that the two firms' proposals do not meet the scale of the crisis. The draft law would also reach providers of apps used by children, turning on-device image classification into a compliance job for them too.
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Pornhub's parent company started reading Apple's device-level under-18 signal in May. Ofcom's investigation is about the testing Aylo did before it switched that over. The liability stays with Aylo.
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Meta's second action against Ofcom this year disputes the categorisation that attaches extra transparency, user-control and fraud-advertising duties to two of its services. Ofcom's online safety director told peers the regulator is operating in a highly litigious environment.
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The judicial review turns on qualifying worldwide revenue, the figure behind Ofcom's annual fee and a fine cap of 10 percent of global turnover. The substantive hearing is set for October 2026, after the first invoices are expected.
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Two UK operators told Connected Britain that planning height limits have held back 5G, with Ookla putting UK 5G availability at 45.2 percent of the population against Denmark's 83.9 percent. Neither operator sized the effect.
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The two-hour cap and overnight notification blocks were written to end a US trial, and the UK's work and pensions secretary now expects them in Britain as a matter of course. That is how a settlement becomes a spec.
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The ONS widened what counts as digital infrastructure to include data centres, hardware and spectrum. The bigger total went backwards in its first year.
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After seven deaths on the A66, Luke Pollard told platforms to demote dangerous driving as well as delete it. TikTok answered with a takedown rate that measures something else.
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Blackburn and Blumenthal set a 1 September deadline for 13 questions. The broadest one asks for every US algorithmic experiment where TikTok withheld a protection, and how many minors were caught in it.
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British filings show the unit covering the UK, Europe and Latin America turned its first profit in the year TikTok was forced offline in America. Political risk was regional, not existential.
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