Reddit will use the third-party service Persona to confirm a user’s age, necessitating users to submit a picture of their ...

The platform may also soon start checking if users are human or AI.

Last summer's riots show how some content can be harmful but not illegal The Online Safety Act fails to tackle online ...

After years of campaigning and political debate, tech platforms will - within weeks - be legally obliged to stop kids seeing ...

The government is considering further action to keep children safe online and will not "sit back and wait" on the issue, a ...

Ian Russell, whose daughter Molly tragically took her own life in 2017 after accessing horrendous material online, told the ...

Ofcom’s chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes defended reforms coming into effect on July 25. Technology companies are not being ...

A man who was the first to be charged with encouraging serious self-harm online under Section 184 of the Online Safety Act 2023 has been sentenced to a nine years and four month prison term - ...

A man who urged a vulnerable woman to kill herself during video calls has become the first to be sentenced under the Online ...