What UK Online Safety Act 2023 Part 3 - Illegal Content Risk Assessment, Safety Duties, and Children's Protection Duties (Sections 9-12) requires
Online Safety Act 2023 (c.50) Part 3 imposes duties of care on providers of regulated user-to-user services and regulated search services with respect to illegal content and content harmful to children: section 9 requires providers to carry out a suitable and sufficient illegal content risk assessment that evaluates the user base, the risk of users encountering each kind of priority illegal content, the risk of the service being used for the commission or facilitation of priority offences, the severity of harms, the functionalities of the service that affect risk, and the policies and processes addressing risk; section 10 imposes the illegal content safety duties requiring proportionate measures to prevent users encountering priority illegal content, mitigate risk of service misuse for criminal offences, operate systems to minimise the time illegal content is present, and swiftly remove illegal content on notice (with separate terms-of-service protections for terrorism content, child sexual exploitation and abuse content, and other priority offences); sections 11-12 impose parallel children's risk assessment and children's safety duties on providers whose services are likely to be accessed by children, including the requirement to prevent children from encountering primary priority content harmful to children through age verification or age estimation. OFCOM enforces compliance through information notices, confirmation decisions, fines up to GBP 18 million or 10 percent of global qualifying revenue, business disruption measures, and criminal liability for senior managers in specified circumstances.
Pillar: Adult Industry & Sexual Content Compliance · Authority: Parliament of the United Kingdom - Online Safety Act 2023 (c.50), Royal Assent 26 October 2023, phased commencement under section 240 with substantive Part 3 duties commencing in 2024-2025 by OFCOM-published codes of practice · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/part/3
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- Online Safety Act 2023 (c.50) Section 9 (Illegal content risk assessment duties): 'A provider of a regulated user-to-user service must carry out a suitable and sufficient illegal content risk assessment...The matters to be assessed include the user base, the level of risk of users of the service encountering each kind of priority illegal content, the level of risk of functionalities of the service facilitating the presence or dissemination of illegal content or use of the service for the commission or facilitation of a priority offence, the level of risk of harm to users presented by illegal content, the different ways in which the service is used and the impact of such use on the level of risk of harm, and the nature, and severity, of the harm that might be suffered by users.'
- Online Safety Act 2023 (c.50) Section 10 (Illegal content safety duties): 'A duty to take or use proportionate measures relating to the design or operation of the service to (a) prevent individuals from encountering priority illegal content by means of the service, (b) effectively mitigate and manage the risk of the service being used for the commission or facilitation of a priority offence, and (c) effectively mitigate and manage the risks of harm to individuals, as identified in the most recent illegal content risk assessment of the service.'
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