Tech companies must start putting in place measures to protect users from child sexual abuse images and other illegal content in Britain from Monday as enforcement of its online safety regime ramps up.
Media regulator Ofcom said Meta’s (META.O) Facebook, ByteDance’s TikTok, Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube and other companies must now implement measures such as better moderation, easier reporting and built-in safety tests to tackle criminal activity and make their platforms safer by design.
“Platforms must now act quickly to come into compliance with their legal duties, and our codes are designed to help them do that,” Ofcom’s enforcement director Suzanne Cater said.
