Great Britain Perhaps this is the place with digital life and the most secure Internet on the planet? Well, at least that’s what the legislators of this country think it is. “The world’s safest place to work online” received royal assent and became law today.
The most significant provisions of this law, with severe consequences for violators and responsibility for protecting privacy, are: restricting access of minors to online pornography, anonymous trolls, deceptive advertising, sharing intimate deepfakes without exchange and their distribution. child sexual abuse material and terrorism-related content.
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom, which is responsible for enforcing the rules, plans to publish its codes of practice in three stages. The first looks at how platforms will have to respond to illegal content such as terrorism and child sexual abuse, and a consultation will be published on November 9 with proposals on how to tackle these challenges.
Meanwhile, phases two and three cover platforms’ commitments to keeping children safe and preventing minors from accessing pornography, as well as ensuring transparent reporting, preventing deceptive advertising and offering “empowerment tools” to give users more control over the content they are shown. .
Failure to comply with the law could result in companies being fined up to £18 million (about US$22 million), or 10% of their global annual turnover (whichever is greater), and their bosses could even face imprisonment.
“The strongest protections in the Internet Safety Act are for children. “Social media companies will be held to account for the horrific scale of child sexual abuse that occurs on their platforms, and our children will be safer,” UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman said. “We are committed to fighting the scourge of child sexual exploitation wherever it occurs and this legislation is a big step forward.”
The legislation was welcomed by child safety advocates. “The inclusion of the Internet Safety Bill on the statute book is a game-changer and will mean that children across the UK will be safer in their everyday lives,” said the chief executive of the National Society for Internet Safety. Wanless, in a statement. “Tech companies will be legally required to protect children from sexual abuse and avoidable harm.”
Source: Digital Trends
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