UK Online Safety Regulations and impact on Forums

[Alvin63]

Here in Australia we just have to worry about age limits.
It doesn't say if it's gender based or not.
If it does then the idea would be to wait for the actual report to come out of Ofcom. You can't always believe everything from the media.
I'd wait and see if they actually ask you personally to do one.

It's a legal requirement for everyone with a forum to review and update the risk assessment in line with current legal requirements. As @chillibear said, I think the 9 points about women and girls have to be incorporated in the existing references to priority harms. Or something like that.

 

[zappaDPJ]

A bit late in the day the ICO has discovered the outdated notion of parental responsibility.

Call for parents to teach their children online privacy like they would road safety

Three in four parents fear their child cannot make safe choices about personal data online, the data watchdog finds.

www.bbc.co.uk

Parents should teach children online privacy as an essential life skill in the same way as stranger danger or road safety, the UK's data watchdog has said.

The warning comes after research by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found three in four parents feared their child could not make safe online privacy choices.

The ICO has launched a campaign urging families to have simple conversations with their children about protecting personal information after its study found privacy was one of the least discussed online safety topics.

 

[Alvin63]

Whilst not quite what you're after Ofcom did publish a report into the risk assessments they reviewed - https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets...e-safety-risk-assessments-report-year-one.pdf which outlines what they feel people got wrong and so forth, generally not enough evidence in the assessments. Might help in doing your year two. Annoyingly much of it seems to go against the example they put in their guidance, so it's not left me with a lot more clarity.

I assumed we'd take year one and duplicate it and make some modifications/changes to reflect the changes in guidance an so forth such as the nine points in the new https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets...e-a-safer-life-online-for-women-and-girls.pdf stuff which is aimed at protecting women and girls online.

So more reading ...

Re the women and girls requirements. The document mentions four main harms covered:
Online misogyny
Pile-ons and online harrassment
Online domestic abuse
Image-based sexual abuse.

I think this is quite easy to cover. For me I can just add those caterogies to the AI content moderator and say that in the risk assessment.

Just means adding them to the list - stalking is already in there.

 

[Suzanne O]

It's a legal requirement for everyone with a forum to review and update the risk assessment in line with current legal requirements. As @chillibear said, I think the 9 points about women and girls have to be incorporated in the existing references to priority harms. Or something like that.

It might be worth making a new thread about the report and pop the link up so that you are on the same page as the report.
As i mentioned before Australia has a social media ban for people who are under the age of 16.
This ban isn't as thorough as what the UK have it.
All us Aussies need to do is have a thread up about the social media u/16 ban.