New online security rules are here, but as ahead race, expected change

This is definitely the deepest fear of any mummy or father – losing your child in a world that is out of sight, a place where they cannot protect them.

Esther Ghee, Ian Russell, Mariano Genin, Liam Walsh, Ellen Rome, Lisa Kennevan, Holi Dance and Judy Thomas.

They are all parents who believe that the Internet played a role in the death of their children: Bryan, Molly, Mia, Mia, Jules, Isaac, Archie and Franky.

And they have boldly told us their stories, sharing their pain, what happens more effectively on the Internet in the hope of partially pushing the authorities.

After years of expedition and political debate, take platforms – within weeks – will be legally bound to prevent children from seeing harmful materials, including pornography and content, which encourages self -loss. They will be expected to examine the age of users, and if they do not, they can be punished with heavy fines.

But the debate on whether the changes will have the right effect, already fierce. Personally, the government independently accepts that the new rules already require updates. So what is going on?

“If it does what it says that it does, it should actually be big,” a whitehall source said, with high expectations of change in the way.

Ofcom will be responsible for implementing new child safety rules, requiring platforms to check users’ age. These are effective on July 25 – and COM’s CEO, Dame Melani Davase, will join me to join the studio tomorrow morning to explain more.

The regulator will not properly tell the platform how to verify the age of the users. But it can share a selfie in real time, or check the bank details. Without proving that they are 18 years old, a child or teenager should not be able to see theoretically that can harm them.

The measures of com have already been implemented to remove illegal materials for tech firms. A senior Whitehall source said: “We have 20 years, which have not been noticed.” You can no longer say that.

But some observers have a very slow view of how much new rules are going to change.

A pracharak said: “If we believe that Bilm PR, we can all take them to our dekchairs and simply enjoy the sun.”

Correct or incorrectly, new rules do not cover what children share with each other on messaging apps, and they do not block risky stunts or challenges or in-apps like loot boxes that some families spend a luck.

And as technology progresses, the rules do not completely cover the AI Chatbot that attracts children’s attention.

The Online Security Act, which was passed in 2023, has to deal with materials that are harmful, but legal for adults – at least when they were in charge when they were in charge when they were in charge.

Nor was it established to deal with misinformation or hatred, which MPs warned on Friday that the new system designed to save everyone left severe holes.

Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, who investigated the law in view of the riots of Southport, stated that internet users were coming in contact with large versions of harmful and misleading materials, which could cheat mental health, normalize extremist ideas, weak democracy and fuel violence “.

The MPs in the committee concluded that the Act failed to keep the UK citizens “a core and comprehensive online loss”.

Many security campaigners feel that the rules do not go too far and it has been very cautious. A former cabinet minister says to me: “I don’t just understand their speed or lack of urgency.”

It took years to pass the online security act as a law in the first place. Parliament spent a long time with real dilemmas – especially how to protect the fundamental rights of free speech and privacy.

Then it took several months to write the code of practice applied over time. They wanted to make rules that were practical for technical platforms themselves.

An industry source states that the com was “intelligent and grown up”, and when the rules were not “revolutionary”, they were important, positioning the UK between strict rules in the European Union and a more relaxed rule in the US.

Although you see it, these new laws are coming for a very long time. And while grinding with whitehall, technology, and the types of all experiences are online, running forward.

Who really heard about AI five years ago? From many sources I have questioned that if the entire system is designed then it is correct.

The former minister I said that it was a “category error” to regulate the Internet in this way, asking what was the right body to work.

But eventually, Tomcom can only work within the laws set by MPs.

While we will focus in the studio tomorrow on the impact of the new rules, there is already a clear demand among politicians to move forward.

Labor’s Education Secretary made a brand of Toryse’s suggestion to ban the phone “gimmick” over the phone in schools. The PM said that it was “unnecessary”. But the House of Lords can return the views in votes in the middle-utum, pushing the question back to the MPs.

Maybe some newly formed labor backbenchers will also be wooed to support it? One of them told me if there was any reshuffle, and a new education secretary, “I directly dig, dig at the fight, reach the right part of the public and the parents, and agree on the proposal of Toryse.”

But I understand that new measures are developed in the government which can emerge even after summer.

Regarding the implementation of age verification measures, the cabinet minister wants to transfer conversations towards healthy habits, Peter Kyle. The Online Security Act focuses on what we can see on the Internet. But Kyle’s next attention is on how we use it, seeing how some apps can be addictive.

A source said: “Children should not be grateful that they cannot see violent porn on their equipment … The next debate is about what is healthy online.”

The ministers are considering how they can protect children from algorithms that “can exclude children from control”, or binding behavior. Proposals on the table include a “app cap”, screen deadline, additional rules on live streams, and a difference between 13 and 16-year children.

There is a possibility of bringing more law changes to the next round, but now, as an MP said: “It is stuck somewhere in the system.”

You can expect the next round of dialogue about how governments can protect the public from the worst internet excesses, while enjoying their incredible opportunities to be part of the autumn political soundtrack.

Technology has changed many aspects of our life very fast in recent years. But for a lot of families, their experiences online have brought terrible pain. Just as our heads can try to understand all changes, politicians have probably struggled to balance the opportunities with dangers, and how can they be called to protect the public.

What is online, there is no normal turn of politics, such as completing schools or hospitals, is going on. But the way our virtual life is a growing part of our world, they are also becoming a big part of our political life.

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