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UK law requiring online platforms to tackle illegal content and protect children, enforced by regulator Ofcom with fining powers.
Meta is challenging Ofcom in the High Court over the revenue definition that sets Online Safety Act fines at up to 10% of qualifying worldwide revenue. Meta says the Act gives Ofcom no power to count unregulated revenue when it names several entities, City AM reported.
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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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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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Xicoia made a biometric age estimate mandatory for every Talking Tilly caller this month and cites legitimate interests as the legal basis. The service closes on September 27; transcripts can be held for eight weeks.
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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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