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Navigating the UK’s Online Safety Act: Implications for Global Digital Services

The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act (OSA or the Act), which received Royal Assent in October 2023, establishes a new statutory framework to address harmful online content, protect children, and promote accountability among...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

A (Byrne &) Storm is Brewing – Do Not Ignore the Online Safety Act’s International Reach

Earlier this year, as deadlines for online platforms passed to implement highly effective age verification and to conduct risk assessments, we wrote extensively about Ofcom’s ramp up of enforcement programme and their flurry...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Walking the Talk, Ofcom’s Online Safety Act Enforcement

Back in March 2025, we published an article highlighting that Ofcom will be turning up the heat to ramp up pressure on platforms in relation to their duties to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA). There has been a flurry of...more

K&L Gates LLP

2025: Ofcom's Year of Enforcement

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The Online Safety Act 2023 (the Act), aims to protect people online, particularly children, and places more responsibility on online media platforms and search engines, which now have new legal duties to protect users’ safety...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Policing the Digital Space - New Rules Require Platforms to Take Responsibility for Users’ Content

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Since the emergence of the Internet, under current European Union rules, services that host user-generated or user-contributed content have enjoyed legal immunity from liability, provided they take down unlawful content once...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Nota Bene Episode 104: European Q4 Check In: Brexit, Digital Platform Regulation, and National Security Regulation with Oliver...

For our Quarterly European check in, we’re looking at the latest updates with Brexit and the impact on multinational companies. We’re also discussing the regulation of Big Tech companies in the European Union (EU) and...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

UK’s Online Harms Regime Must Be ‘Proportionate’, According to the ICO and Ofcom

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Delicate balance required, as regulators and lobbyist warn of the risks of over-regulation while research indicates users seek greater protection. Both the ICO and the outgoing Chief Executive of Ofcom have sounded a...more

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UK House of Lords Select Committee calls for a Digital Authority to regulate the online world

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On 9 March 2019, the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications published its report on “Regulating in a digital World”. ...more

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Is the UK’s post-Brexit approach to platforms and the digital sector starting to emerge?

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s statements of intent on a digital service tax and competition law reforms reinforce other recent indications that the UK government is looking seriously at making significant changes to the...more

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Liability regulation of online platforms in the UK

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The UK's diverse ecology of online platforms is a key growth engine for the UK economy and society. It enables knowledge discovery, sales, social and economic interaction and the sharing and distribution of content. ...more

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DSM webinar highlights tax, competition law, copyright, AVMS and data economy issues for 2017

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In a February 7, 2017 webinar, the Hogan Lovells Digital Single Market (DSM) team presented its take on new developments for 2017. Peter Watts introduced the session by warning that the loss of the UK voice in EU policy...more

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