Tech firms are now warned to work or face results, as new online security safety is applied for children.
From Friday, the so-called “risky” sites and apps will be expected to use that the regulator has described as “highly effective” age tests that users have children and later prevent them from reaching pornography, as well as other harmful materials including self-inflation, suicide, food disorders, and gross violence.
But some online security campaigners said that new measures should have been “the watershed moment for young people,” the regulator’s regulator instead has accused the “low” parents of “giving priority to the professional needs of large technology on the safety of children”.
The 14 -year -old daughter Molly killed her own after seeing harmful materials on social media, later, Molly Rose Foundation established condolences by Sentaly Sent, Ian Russell, which lacks ambition and accountability of change and warned that Big Tech would have noticed.
In front of criticism of campaigners, Chief Executive Officer Begum Melani Daves has previously defended reforms, saying that tech firms are not being given much power on new measures, which are applying as part of the online security act.
The changes to be applied in the UK include age tests on pornography websites, as well as others such as dating app Grindr, which Antom said that it would ensure that it is more difficult for children to use online porn than many other countries in the UK.
The regulator stated that sites such as X, East, Twitter, and other sites like Blussky and Redit are also committed to age assurance.
Tomcom said its safety codes also demand that the algorithm should be “nominated and configured for children so that the most harmful materials are blocked”.
It said that it has started a monitoring and impact program focused on some platforms where children spend most of the time including social media sites. FacebookInstagram and Tikok, Gaming Site Roblox and Video Clip Website YouTube.
The sites are among those who have been asked to submit by 7 August, reviewing their efforts to assess the risk and by September 30, to check the practical functions they are to protect children.
Action Those who can be taken against firms that fail to follow the new codes include a fine of up to £ 18 million or a fine of 10% of revenue worldwide, whichever is more, and orders to be potentially blocked in the UK.
The NSPCC has warned that COMCOM should “show its teeth and apply the new code completely”.
Dame Melani said: “Click on online security of children and prioritizing connectivity will no longer be tolerated in the UK.
“Our message for tech firms is clear – compliance with the age check and other safety measures in our code, or face the consequences of enforcement action from COM.”
But Molly Rose Foundation CEO Andy Baroz said: “It should be a watershed moment for young people, but instead we have been disappointed by a regulator who has chosen to prioritize business needs of large technology on safety of children.”
He said that “the lack of ambition and accountability would have been heard loud and clearly in Silicon Valley”.
He said: “We now need a clear reset and leadership Prime MinisterThis means that there is nothing less than a new online security act that cures this broken governance and firmly returns balance in the children’s favor. ,
NSPCC chief executive Chris Sherwood said: ”ChildrenAnd their parents should not take responsibility to keep themselves online. Technical companies have a high time to step. ,
He said that if the enforcement is “strong”, the code should offer “a significant layer of safety” for children and youth, when they go online, add: “If tech companies fail to comply with, they should show their teeth and apply the new code completely”.
England’s Children’s Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Suja said on Friday, “How children can be preserved online, marked a new era of changes, technical companies now need to identify and deal with children on their platforms or facial results”, and said that the measures should be talked with technology to make the future effective in future.
He said: “I will continue to reflect children’s ideas in work to make the online world a safe place for all children. Security should always come before profit.”
