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UK internet safety legislation
The Online Safety Act 2023 creates a corporate penalty regime that allows Ofcom to impose maximum fines equal to for breaches of its safety duties, a ceiling repeatedly stated in legal commentary and ...
Socioeconomic status and region shape the picture of sexual assault in the UK, but the clearest, most reliable published data focus on who is victimised (age, sex) and where offences are recorded rath...
If you accidentally encounter illegal content online, immediate steps typically recommended by legal experts and regulators are: stop viewing or downloading the material, preserve minimal evidence for...
Across the last two decades the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) has consistently produced substantially higher estimates of sexual assault prevalence than police-recorded crime, and analysts...
Arrests directly attributable to "chat control" or chat-scanning policies in the UK are not clearly enumerated in public data, and existing reporting links broader increases in online-communications a...
Age verification laws have measurably reshaped where and how pornography is produced and distributed: lawmakers across the US, EU, UK, Australia and other jurisdictions have tightened requirements sin...
English courts determine what counts as online hate speech through a mix of statutory offences and regulatory duties that compel platforms and prosecutors to weigh context, intent and harm; recent leg...