Tag: Online Safety Act
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The UK’s Child Safety Law Has a Moustache Problem
Quick Story Summary The UK’s Online Safety Act has required platforms to assess child-safety risks, reduce harmful content exposure, and use age verification where appropriate since July 2025. Internet Matters’ May 2026 research found that 46% of children say age checks are easy to bypass, while 32% admit they have already done so. Children described…
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America Wants to ID You Before You Download an App
Quick Story Summary The App Store Accountability Act (H.R. 3149) would require app stores like Apple and Google to verify the age of every user before they can download or access apps. App stores would have to collect age data, categorize users into age brackets, and share that age signal with app developers so apps…
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UK Social Media Laws – Are People Being Arrested for Posts?
In short: Police in the UK continue to arrest people for online posts that are reported as threatening, harassing, or grossly offensive. Cases are commonly brought under communications and public order laws, including offenses tied to harassment, malicious communications, and hate incidents. Arrests often begin with a user report, followed by platform referrals or local…
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Wikipedia Loses Challenge to UK Online Safety Act
The Wikimedia Foundation, the charity that runs Wikipedia, has lost a court fight over some of the UK’s Online Safety Act provisions. The High Court action aimed to prevent the strictest rules of the law from being applied to the online encyclopedia. The judge dismissed the challenge but, as reported by Reuters the The Guardian,…
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ID Verification on YouTube (2025): What It Is, Why It’s Here, and How Australian & UK Laws Are Driving It
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TL;DR – YouTube is expanding age checks for viewers and tightening identity checks for creators. The UK’s Online Safety Act and Australia’s new under-16 social-media rules are the big levers forcing platforms toward “highly effective age assurance” (read: ID, credit card, or selfie verification). Read on for details about the changes, and how you can…