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Ofcom’s vast Online Safety Act compliance database covers only tens of thousands of adult sites

By Frank Hersey ( January 19, 2024, 16:17 GMT | Insight) -- The UK’s online safety regulator has a database of millions of online services and apps it hopes to start checking for compliance with the new Online Safety Act, but only some tens of thousands of those are pornography sites. The vast majority of sites in the database will have to be assessed for risk with an artificial intelligence tool developed by the regulator. Ofcom is, however, meeting face-to-face with large social media platforms.The UK’s online safety regulator has a database of millions of online services and apps it hopes to start checking for compliance with the new Online Safety Act, but only some tens of thousands of those are pornography sites. The vast majority of sites in the database will have to be assessed for risk with an artificial intelligence tool developed by the regulator. Ofcom is, however, meeting face-to-face with large social media platforms....

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