UK Online Safety Law Is Going to Change the Way We Use the Internet

Internet regulation is entering its hall pass era

Big changes are coming to the web in the days ahead. On July 25, the U.K.’s Online Safety Act will take effect, bringing sweeping changes to how users experience the internet. Within the next week, websites like Reddit and Bluesky will begin asking users to verify their age—either by providing official ID, bank details that prove their age, or a selfie analyzed by age-estimation software. The act mandates that platforms implement “highly effecti…

UK online safety law is going to change the way we use the internet

The UK's Online Safety Act is intended to stop children from accessing pornography online, but its potential implications are much wider reaching

Bluesky to roll out age verification for U.K. users ahead of Online Safety Act deadline – altnews.org

Bluesky to roll out age verification for U.K. users ahead of Online Safety Act deadline Social media platform Bluesky will

Date set for Wikipedia's legal challenge against Online Safety Act

London’s High Court of Justice will next week hear the legal challenge of the Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation that operates Wikipedia, against the UK government’s Online Safety Act. The case will take place on 22 and 23 July, following Wikimedia’s announcement that it was taking legal action against the government in May. The non-profit is arguing that the Categorisation Regulations defined in the act place Wikipedia and its users at “una…

Wikipedia's privacy at risk under UK Online Safety Act, legal challenge to be heard

Wikimedia, the organization behind Wikipedia, is going to challenge some of the provisions of the UK's Online Safety Act related to user verification. Read more...

New laws ‘not the end of the conversation’ on online safety

A cabinet minister has indicated that, despite legislation have already been implemented, the government will continue to keep an eye on issues and may update measures accordingly in the future The Online Safety Act is not the “end of the conversation” to make the internet safer for users, UK transport secretary Heidi Alexander has said.  Speaking this week to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, Alexander indicated that the government is looking into fu…