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<p>Government is taking a range of measures to protect children and young people from
harmful online content.</p><p>Through the Digital Economy Act 2017, the government
is introducing a requirement for commercial providers of online pornography to have
robust age verification controls in place to prevent children and young people under
18 from accessing pornographic material.</p><p> </p><p>In addition we have worked
with Internet Service Providers to introduce a rigorous and comprehensive system of
family-friendly content filtering, through which parents can help protect their children
from viewing harmful content over home broadband networks.</p><p> </p><p>Through the
UK Council for Child Internet Safety we have produced a practical guide for providers
of social media and interactive services, in which we set out best practices for preventing
children from encountering harmful content.</p><p>Furthermore, the Data Protection
Act 2018 introduced a new requirement for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
to produce a statutory code of practice on age-appropriate design. This code will
ensure that websites and applications are designed in a way that makes clear what
data is being collected on children, how this data is being used, and how both children
and parents can stay in control of this data.</p><p>Nevertheless there is still more
to do, which is why we will shortly be publishing an Online Harms White Paper, which
will set out a range of legislative and non-legislative measures detailing how the
Government will tackle the full range of online harms and set clear responsibilities
for tech companies to keep UK citizens safe.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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