The Online Safety Bill, a piece of legislation that seeks assurances to keep some sites free of illegal and harmful content for U.K. jurisdiction, is facing opposition from tech and messaging giants due to its possible effects on privacy and encryption. The bill introduces clauses allowing the government to force messaging companies to scan user messages looking for harmful or dangerous content.
Online Safety Bill: Focus and Objectives
The Online Safety Bill is a piece of legislation currency being discussed in the House of the Lords, the upper house of the U.K. Parliament, that seeks to make the internet safer by establishing a new set of rules that will be enforced by Ofcom, the U.K, telecommunications regulator.
The bill, which is currently in the final stages of its approval and is expected to be approved next week without significant changes, adds a new layer of duties for different communications service providers in the U.K., including the removal of probably harmful content by
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