Summary
What this law does
This Ofcom guidance sets expectations under the Online Safety Act for online services to protect children from harmful and pornographic content. It details obligations to complete access assessments and deploy highly effective age assurance methods, including digital identity services, photo ID matching, and facial age estimation.
Why it matters to Signicat and its customers
No Signicat-specific relevance narrative is stored for this instrument; the stored applicability is shown below.
Who is bound: Pornography services; services which allow pornography or certain other types of harmful content; user-to-user and search services; services that publish their own pornographic content · Regulators: Ofcom
- Media Entertainment
- Regulated adult and user-to-user services must implement highly effective age assurance to prevent children from accessing harmful content.