Overregulating the tech sector will cause global tensions, the former chief executive of the National Cyber Security ...

According to reports, the arrangement could see amendments to the Online Safety Act, which can currently levy significant fines on US social media companies if they fail to take down harmful content, ...

What is the Online Safety Act? The Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA) brought in new rules for internet companies to make sure their users are protected from harm that can take place on their platforms, ...

Dangerous suicide and self-harm content will remain online despite the introduction of the Online Safety Act because of “big gaps around high risk content”, Samaritans has said. The charity’s policy ...

Ofcom, the U.K.'s internet safety regulator, has published another new draft guidance as it continues to implement the Online ...

The head of Ofcom has told LBC that the regulator will "name and shame" social media companies that fail to protect women and girls in the UK adequately.

First introduced in 2022, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is a bipartisan bill purportedly designed to make the internet safer for minors, defined as anyone 16 and younger. Over the past two ...

Murphy (D-Ct.), and Britt (R-Ala.) introduced the Kids Off Social Media Act (KOSMA). This bill would impose age and content ...

Ofcom's draft guidance under the UK Online Safety Act 2023 urges platforms to conduct abusability testing to protect women from online harm.

The UK’s Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA) is a comprehensive piece of legislation designed to regulate social media companies and search services and ...

A group of leading major technology companies including OpenAI and Discord have raised more than $27 million for a new initiative focused on building open-source tools to boost online safety for ...