"On Tuesday, the Lords Communications and Digital Committee will hear from three prominent online safety advocates as it probes the regulator's proposed new measures under the Online Safety Act (OSA). Andy Burrows of the Molly Rose Foundation, Rani Govender from the NSPCC, and Baroness Kidron OBE of 5Rights will be asked whether the changes will actually deliver more safety - or just more compliance burden, privacy nightmares, and unintended consequences."
"The regulator also wants sites to deploy hash-matching to spot known illegal content - everything from CSAM to non-consensual intimate images - and roll out automated tools to flag grooming, fraud, self-harm, and suicide content. The House of Lords says it will quiz the online safety campaigners about the likely effectiveness of Ofcom's proposed new protections and whether the proposed new protections around livestreams are adequate, or if children should be banned from livestreaming altogether."
The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee will hear testimony from online safety advocates Andy Burrows, Rani Govender, and Baroness Kidron on Ofcom's proposed Online Safety Act amendments. Ofcom proposes stricter age-assurance rules, restrictions on livestream features requiring platforms to disable comments, virtual gifts, and reactions when minors are involved, and blocking viewers from recording children's livestreams. The regulator proposes hash-matching to detect known illegal content and automated tools to flag grooming, fraud, self-harm, and suicide content. Lawmakers will question whether the measures improve safety or simply create compliance burdens, privacy risks, and free-speech threats.
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