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Social media platforms face huge fines under UK’s new digital safety laws. (www.ofcom.org.uk)
submitted 4 days ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • As deadline passes to carry out illegal harms risk assessments, sites and apps must now start tackling criminal content
  • Ofcom launches enforcement programme into child sexual abuse imagery on file-sharing services
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[–] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 days ago

Privacy in the UK is dead.

[–] dan@upvote.au 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What does this mean for Lemmy servers based in the UK, and for Lemmy instances that have users from the UK?

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago

Nothing if the legislation was written properly.

Not good if the legislation was written badly.

[–] Neblib@mastodo.neoliber.al 2 points 3 days ago

@dan @Tea

Not a lawyer, but I gather that OSA would apply and instance owners would need to comply.

Neil Brown from Decoded.Legal wrote a huge summary of info at https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/ .

IFTAS has another collection of resources https://connect.iftas.org/library/legal-regulatory/online-safety-act/