In February 2022, after months of hearings, committee members Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) ...

The initial codes of practice cover tackling illegal harms – such as terror, hate, fraud, child sexual abuse and assisting or encouraging suicide – which fall into the scope of the UK’s Online Safety ...

The UK plans to extend its rules against illegal material online to cover how social media companies ... its first guidelines for the Online Safety Act, a law passed in 2023 to govern illegal ...

On Monday, the U.K.’s internet regulator, Ofcom, published the first set of final guidelines for online service providers subject to the Online Safety ... the Act sets out, which cover areas ...

Hundreds of websites will be shut down on the day that Britain’s Online Safety Act comes into effect ... but Ofcom says it will cover online services “from large and well-resourced companies ...

The measures form the first set of duties imposed by the regulator under the Online Safety Act, a sweeping law requiring ... The duties will cover social media firms, search engines, messaging ...