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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.

The T&Cs lie over half of people tell: using prompts to tackle it

Published: 18 September 2024

We wanted to find out if behavioural techniques could be used to increase the number of users accessing online terms and conditions (T&Cs). And does accessing T&Cs actually make a difference to how people behave online?

Promoting user engagement with Terms and Conditions

Published: 30 July 2024

This is a discussion paper by Ofcom’s Behavioural Insight Hub that presents research aimed at understanding the user relationships with social media T&Cs, specifically Community Guidelines.

Boosting children's safety online: Help Centres

Published: 8 May 2024

Last updated: 30 July 2024

This online trial tested different ways to encourage children to access age-appropriate user support materials (or help centre) during the sign-up process of a mock social media platform.

‘Online safety risks don’t stop at the border, they traverse the world’ – why international online safety regulation matters

Published: 26 July 2024

We speak to Owen Bennett, Ofcom’s Head of International Online Safety, about how online safety policy affects us all in the UK and why international collaboration is so crucial.

Red Teaming for GenAI Harms - Revealing the Risks and Rewards for Online Safety

Published: 23 July 2024

Ofcom is exploring how online services could employ safety measures to protect their users from harm posed by GenAI.

Behavioural insights to empower social media users

Published: 21 May 2024

Online safety and data protection

Published: 1 May 2024

How Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) intend to collaborate in regulating online services.

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