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<p>The UK’s Online Safety Act will make the UK the safest place to be a child online.
The strongest protections in the Online Safety Act are for children. Providers which
have age restrictions need to specify in their terms of service what measures they
use to prevent underage access and apply these terms consistently The Online Safety
Act will require user-to-user and search services to implement robust processes to
tackle illegal content and safeguard children on their platforms.</p><p> </p><p>Under
the Act, where an in-scope provider makes significant changes to their service, they
will be required to update their illegal content and children’s risk assessment. Ofcom
will have strong investigatory powers to determine the impact of changes that particular
providers make. Where Ofcom finds that a functionality is a risk factor for illegal
content or harm to children on particular services, then it is empowered to set out
steps providers should take to mitigate this. Ofcom have robust enforcement powers
available to use against companies who fail to fulfil their duties, including imposing
substantial fines.</p>
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