Ofcom calls on tech firms to make online world safer for women and girls
Published: 25 February 2025
Ofcom has today proposed concrete measures that tech firms should take to tackle online harms against women and girls, setting a new and ambitious standard for their online safety.
Consultation on draft Guidance: A safer life online for women and girls
Published: 25 February 2025
Ofcom is consulting on draft Guidance for a safer life online for women and girls. The consultation is aimed at providers of regulated online services and other relevant stakeholders including Ofcom’s statutory consultees for the draft Guidance - the Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner.
Online service categorisation: information notices
Published: 17 October 2024
How Ofcom plans to issue information notices to relevant providers for the purpose of categorisation.
Countdown to a safer life online
Published: 17 October 2024
Two months out from online safety laws coming into force, Ofcom has warned tech firms they could face enforcement action if they don’t comply with new duties when the time comes.
How to comply with the Online Safety Act: responding to Ofcom’s requests for information
Published: 17 October 2024
The Online Safety Act (OSA) makes businesses, and anyone else who operates a wide range of online services, legally responsible for keeping people (especially children) in the UK safe online.
Ofcom urges tech firms to keep women safer online
Published: 1 June 2022
Last updated: 17 March 2023
Real-world concerns about women’s safety and wellbeing are mirrored in the online world, according to figures from Ofcom’s major study into the nation’s online lives.
The impact of online hate
Published: 6 February 2023
Last updated: 16 March 2023
This qualitative research examines the impact of exposure to online hate and hateful abuse on people with protected characteristics
Life Online – new podcast episode tackles online abuse in football
Published: 5 August 2022
Last updated: 16 March 2023
As Premier League football returns from its summer break, the latest episode of Ofcom’s Life Online podcast shines a light on the dark side of the beautiful game: the scale of online abuse targeted at players.
Tracking abuse on Twitter against football players in the 2021-22 Premier League season
Published: 2 August 2022
Last updated: 16 March 2023
To understand the problem of footballing abuse, we commissioned The Alan Turing Institute to analyse more than 2.3 million tweets directed at Premier League footballers during the 2021-22 season.
Crossing the line: Seven in ten Premier League footballers face Twitter abuse
Published: 2 August 2022
Last updated: 16 March 2023
Ofcom reveals the scale of personal attacks suffered by Premier League footballers every day on Twitter, and sets out what must be done collectively to tackle the issue.