UK to introduce world-first online safety laws
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The Government have unveiled tough new measures to ensure the UK is the safest place in the world to be online.
- Independent regulator will be appointed to enforce stringent new standards
- Social media firms must abide by mandatory ‘duty of care’ to protect users and could face heavy fines if they fail to deliver
- Measures are the first of their kind in the world in the fight to make the internet a safer place
In the first online safety laws of their kind, social media companies and tech firms will be legally required to protect their users and face tough penalties if they do not comply.
As part of the Online Harms White Paper, a joint proposal from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and the Home Office, a new independent regulator will be introduced to ensure companies meet their responsibilities.
This will include a mandatory ‘duty of care’, which will require companies to take reasonable steps to keep their users safe and tackle illegal and harmful activity on thei...
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