A three-judge panel in the Cincinnati-based sixth US circuit court of appeals said the Federal Communications Commission lacked authority to reinstate the rules initially implemented in 2015 by the Obama administration.

The net neutrality rules, which require internet service providers to treat internet data and users equally, were repealed by Donald Trump in 2017, before outgoing President Biden signed a 2021 executive order encouraging the FCC to reinstate the rules.

The court cited a June decision from the Supreme Court in Loper Bright to overturn a 1984 precedent that would give deference to government agencies in how they interpret laws they administer. The ruling leaves in place state net neutrality laws but is a blow to Democrat efforts to give federal regulators oversight of the internet.

Net-neutrality rules prevent ISPs from restricting access, slowing speeds or blocking content for certain users. The rules also forbid special arrangements in which ISPs give improved network speeds or access to favoured users, but the rules were opposed by Brendan Carr, who is set to become FCC chair when Trump comes to power later this month.

Following the ruling, sitting FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel challenged Congress to act to “put open internet principles in federal law”.

She said: “Consumers across the country have told us again and again that they want an internet that is fast, open and fair. With this decision it is clear that Congress now needs to heed their call.”

USTelecom, an industry group whose members include AT&T and Verizon, said in a joint statement with other groups that sued that the ruling is “a victory for American consumers that will lead to more investment, innovation and competition in the dynamic digital marketplace”.

However, the FCC’s net neutrality rules received backing the likes of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and Meta.

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The lawsuit claimed that some of its iPhones and smartwatches unintentionally activated Siri and recorded users’ conversations, sharing the audio with third-party advertisers.

Voice-activated assistants react when people use “hot words” such as “Hey, Siri”, or for Amazon’s Alexa, simply: “Alexa”.

Two plaintiffs said that they received ads for Air Jordan shoes and Olive Garden restaurants after talking about them in what they thought were confidential conversations.

Another said that after a private conversation with his doctor about a brand-name surgical treatment, he began seeing ads for the same treatment.

They claimed to have not used the phrase “Hey, Siri” to wake Apple’s voice assistant.

Allegedly, advertisers who received the recordings could then search for keywords in order to target ads.

The class period for the lawsuit covers from September 17, 2014, through December 31, 2024, starting from when Apple introduced the “Hey, Siri” feature, which plaintiffs allege led to unauthorised voice recordings.

Apple has proposed a decision date of February 14. If successful, tens of millions of people could receive up to $20 per Siri-equipped device.

As noted by Reuters, $95 million is about nine hours of profit for Apple, highlighting that such lawsuits come as a business cost for big tech companies.

Apple has explicitly denied wrongdoing in agreeing to settle, as well as claims that it “recorded, disclosed to third parties, or failed to delete, conversations recorded as the result of a Siri activation” without consent.

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Earlier this week, the US Treasury Department revealed that it had been hacked by Chinese hackers, who had accessed several employee workstations and unclassified documents.

A letter by the treasury stated that the hackers compromised third-party cybersecurity service provider BeyondTrust in order to steal unclassified documents in what it called a “major incident.”

It detailed that the hackers gained access to a key used by the vendor to secure a cloud-based service used to remotely provide technical support for Treasury Departmental Offices (DO) end users.

With the stolen key, the threat actor was able to override the service’s security and remotely access user workstations.

“Based on available indicators, the incident has been attributed to a China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor,” the letter read.

The Treasury Department said it was alerted to the breach by BeyondTrust on December 8, and it was working with the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI to assess the impact of the hack.

The letter added that there was no evidence that the hacker was still in its systems.

The Washington Post has since spoken to anonymous US officials who said the attackers compromised the Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Office of Financial Research and also targeted the office of US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

According to the report, US officials said that the Chinese government’s motivation would likely be to find out what Chinese entities the US government is considering designating for financial sanctions.

In response to the report, spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, Liu Pengyu, said that the “irrational” US claim was “without any factual basis” and represented “smear attacks” against Beijing.

The spokesperson added that China “combats all forms of cyber-attacks”.

The US Treasury has not responded to a request for comment on the report.

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The documents reveal that Rostislav Panev, a 51-year-old man with dual Russian-Israeli citizenship, is facing extradition to the US to face charges alongside two others accused of working for the cybercriminal group

Panev allegedly served as a malware developer for the ransomware group from its inception in 2019 until February 2024, receiving approximately $230,000 in cryptocurrency transfers from the group between June 2022 and February 2024.

During his time at the group, Panev and his co-conspirators helped grow LockBit into what the US Justice Department refers to as “the most active and destructive ransomware group in the world.”

LockBit is responsible for more than 2,500 attacks across at least 120 countries, including 1,800 in the US.  Victims have included businesses of all sizes, hospitals, schools, nonprofit organisations, critical infrastructure, government agencies, and law enforcement entities.

In total, the group received at least $500 million in ransom payments and caused billions of dollars in losses.

According to the Justice Department, at the time of his arrest, Panev had admin credentials for LockBit’s Dark Web online repository with the gang’s ransomware source code, alongside source code for an affiliate tool called “StealBit” used to exfiltrate stolen data.

Panev’s laptop also had access credentials for the LockBit control panel used by affiliates.

In interviews with Israeli authorities following his arrest in August, Panev admitted to performing coding development and consulting work for the LockBit group and receiving regular payments in cryptocurrency for his work.

“The Justice Department’s work going after the world’s most dangerous ransomware schemes includes not only dismantling networks, but also finding and bringing to justice the individuals responsible for building and running them,” said the Justice Department’s attorney general Merrick B. Garland.

“Three of the individuals who we allege are responsible for LockBit’s cyberattacks against thousands of victims are now in custody, and we will continue to work alongside our partners to hold accountable all those who lead and enable ransomware attacks,” he added.

In February this year, the UK, US, and EU law enforcement announced the takedown of the group with a notice on the gang’s extortion site that read: “The site is now under the control of law enforcement.”

In what was called ‘Operation Cronos’, the agencies displayed multiple screenshots of LockBit’s backend and announced its affiliates in Poland and Ukraine.

Then, in May, the National Crime Agency led a campaign to identify the ‘leader of LockBit’, unmasked as Dmitry Khoroshev.

More recently, unknown individuals claiming to represent the ransomware gang have broken cover to announce the impending release of a new malware, LockBit 4.0.

Reported screengrabs from the Dark Web show the supposed cyber-criminal inviting interested parties to “sign up and start your pentester billionaire journey in 5 minutes with us.”

It showed a countdown timer with a launch date of 3 February 2025.

Read more about who LockBit were during their time as a cyber gang here.

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The AI tool, funded by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), helps recycle end-of-life batteries from products as big as an EV car and as small as a vape by detecting and removing materials such as lithium, nickel, and cobalt and reusing them.

“This project addresses a major national security concern as the United States imports most of our battery materials used for domestic battery cell production facilities from China and other parts of the world,” said Dan Radomski, CEO of Centrepolis Accelerator, the business assistance arm of LTU that supports physical product developers.

“It is critical that we secure end-of-life batteries and reprocess them in a cost-effective way to enable a local source of minerals that can be used again in Michigan and other domestic battery cell production operations,” he added.

A 2022 study found that the world would need to build 400 new mines by 2035 to meet EV and energy storage battery demand.

According to Radomski, most lithium-ion batteries have lithium, nickel, and cobalt, yet almost 90% of those minerals are mined and processed in China.

He added that the US only has one nickel mine. It’s estimated that the country would need 72 to meet requirements for domestic production of batteries.

In addition, Liz Browne, director of EGLE’s materials management division, said disposable vape pens that hold lithium-ion batteries are increasingly appearing in landfills.

She said that finding a way to recycle the elements inside is essential.

EGLE also awarded nearly $1.5 million to the University of Michigan for a plan to create a 500-kilowatt, grid-tired energy storage system by reusing old EV batteries. Over $700,000 also went to Michigan State University’s battery recycling project.

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The UK government has been criticised by campaigners for creative industries after it proposed letting AI companies train their models on copyrighted works.

The proposal, which suggests that AI firms should freely leverage a new copyright exemption while training their algorithms, is “entirely untested and unevidenced” said crossbench peer Beeban Kidron, who campaigns to protect artist and creative rights.

Singer and songwriter Sir Paul McCartney warned AI could “just take over” if the firms writing LLMs are allowed to ignore copyright, but the government warned “legal uncertainty is undermining investment in and adoption of AI technology.”

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Munich Airport aims to boost data use and cut wait times with AIRHART deployment

Munich Airport has unveiled plans for the next stage of its digital transformation after agreeing on a deal to implement the AIRHART data platform.

AIRHART, which is already in operation at Copenhagen Airport, uses real-time data analytics to improve the flow of passengers as they travel through an airport. It uses AI to optimise landing gates, predict bottlenecks and tie together all the different datasets and systems used in an airport.

AIRHART was created by Danish tech firm Netcompany in partnership with Copenhagen Airport and was deployed last year.

Munich Airport is Europe’s tenth busiest airport with over 50 million passengers a year.

“Munich Airport has a strong commitment to innovation and creating a seamless experience for the millions of passengers who visit and transfer at our hub. The implementation of AIRHART and our partnership with Netcompany is a significant step towards that objective,” says Florian Lesch, Senior Vice President IT at Munich Airport.

Read all about how it transformed the Danish airport’s operations

BlackBerry sells endpoint security arm Cylance to Arctic Wolf in huge loss

BlackBerry has reached a $160 million deal to sell Cylance to Arctic Wolf six years after it bought the endpoint detection and response vendor for $1.4 billion.

Arctic Wolf said the acquisition of the AI-powered cyber firm will bolster its EDR offerings, subject to closure of the deal which is expected to come in BlackBerry’s fourth fiscal quarter.

BlackBerry’s acquisition of Cylance in 2018 marked a significant step for the Canadian firm as it pivoted away from being a device manufacturer to focus on enterprise solutions, including security. It was BlackBerry’s largest ever acquisition at the time.

Arctic Wolf will pay $80 million once the deal closes, $40 million around a year later, and chip in 5.5 million shares too.

“Security has an operations and effectiveness problem and endpoint solutions alone have failed to live up to the outcomes they have promised for years,” said Nick Schneider, president and chief executive officer, Arctic Wolf.

“By incorporating Cylance’s endpoint security capabilities into our open-XDR Aurora platform, we will be addressing a rampant need for a truly unified, effective security operations that delivers better outcomes for customers. We believe we will be able to rapidly eliminate alert fatigue, reduce total risk exposure, and help customers unlock further value with our warranty and insurability programs.”

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ChatGPT search made available for all users

OpenAI is making ChatGPT’s search engine function available for all users, including an optimised version for mobile.

The generative AI platform first launched a search function back in October, but it was initially only available for paid subscribers. However, OpenAI revealed as part of its “12 days of ship-mas” the function will unlock for free tiers of ChatGPT from today.

On mobile, the search function will appear more like a traditional search engine, including answers more relevant based on location data.

Another feature aims to make ChatGPT search faster when you’re looking for certain sites, such as “hotel booking websites.” Now, ChatGPT will surface links to websites before taking the time to provide more information about each option.

Additionally, the AI can also automatically provide up-to-date information from the web when using Advanced Voice Mode, though that remains only available to paid users.

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Romania’s scrapped presidential election was targeted by Russian cyberattacks, misinformation, and propaganda, the country’s parliamentary committee has concluded.

Two weeks ago, the presidential election was annulled after far-right, NATO-sceptic Calin Georgescu secured victory in the first round.

The court reached its decision following the revelation of five declassified documents by the EU and NATO’s top security council, which suggested that election interference may have occurred.

At the time, the court suspected Georgescu benefited from a mass influence operation created to influence the result of the vote, believed to be Russia. Russia has denied these claims.

The FBI, the Officer of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have long since warned that Russia was “the most active threat” for misinformation.

Ahead of this year’s US election, they released this joint statement: “We anticipate Russian actors will release additional manufactured content with these themes through election day and in the days and weeks after polls close.”

Now, the Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) has shown more findings allegedly confirming interference to the Romanian parliamentary committee in charge of overseeing it.

“There were cyberattacks meant to influence the fairness of the election, particularly from Russia, to influence the public agenda by using artificial intelligence and aggressive online promotion,” commission chief Mihai Weber said.

Intelligence agencies reported that around 85,000 attempted hacks were made to access electoral data and change content, including on election day.

“There were [also] misinformation and propaganda campaigns to support Eurosceptic candidates, who were favoured compared with other competitors,” Weber added.

Separately, the EU has also launched an investigation into TikTok for allegedly failing to curb Romanian election interference.

Romanian intelligence reports indicate that Georgescu’s surge in popularity was driven by a “highly organised” and “guerrilla” social media campaign on the platform, which utilised identical messaging and influencers.

The declassified documents that led to the annulment of the election revealed that paid content promoting Georgescu was shared on TikTok without proper labelling as election-related, breaching both TikTok’s own guidelines and Romania’s electoral laws.

One declassified file highlighted that $381,000 was paid towards TikTok influencers in a single month to promote him on the platform.

At the time, Georgescu denied any knowledge of the influencers or financial backers involved in the campaign.

TikTok said in a statement that it has “protected the integrity” of its platform in over 150 elections around the world and is continuing to address these “industry-wide” challenges.

If the EU finds that TikTok breached its digital rulebook, it could face fines worth up to 6% of its total global revenue and be forced to make changes to fix the problem.

To read more on technology and 2024’s eventful election year, click here.

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The appeal, filed on Monday, December 16, aims to prevent a federal court ruling earlier this year that requires TikTok parent ByteDance to sell its US arm or face a national ban.

While the Supreme Court has not yet disagreed or agreed to the requested injunction against the law, it will now listen to arguments on the matter on January 10.

“We believe the Court will find the TikTok ban unconstitutional so the over 170 million Americans on our platform can continue to exercise their free speech rights,” a TikTok spokesperson said to the BBC.

On the same day as the appeal was made, President-elect Donald Trump met TikTok’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, according to reports from CBS News.

Trump publicly opposed the ban and said in a press conference on Monday that he would “take a look at TikTok”.

“I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok because I won youth by 34 points,” he said. “There are those that say TikTok has something to do with that. TikTok had an impact.”

His term would begin a day after the potential ban, on 20 January 2025.

The bill introducing the law said the ban would “protect the national security of the United States from the threat posed by foreign adversary-controlled applications”.

It follows alleged links between TikTok owner ByteDance and the Chinese state, though the social media firm has denied this.

The firm unsuccessfully requested that the law be delayed through a request to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last week. This week, the firm is asking the Supreme Court to temporarily block the ban.

“The act will shutter one of America’s most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration,” TikTok said in a court filing.

“This, in turn, will silence the speech of applicants and the many Americans who use the platform to communicate about politics, commerce, arts, and other matters of public concern.”

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At a glance…

• Accenture and Nvidia partnered to advance agentic AI
• The US presidential election shook up the tech sector
• Vodafone and Three merger created UK telco buzz

October: Big Movements in Big Tech

Google invested $1 billion into data centre regions in Thailand

Data centre and cloud investments continued to surge in the last quarter of the year, as Alphabet’s Google announced a $1 billion investment towards building data centre regions in Thailand.

The goal was to support AI adoption in Southeast Asia — as Deloitte forecasted, the investment would create an average of 14,000 jobs annually by 2029.

Accenture and Nvidia expanded their partnership to scale agentic AI adoption

In terms of Gen AI, there’s a new kid on the block. Agentic AI has seen a steady rise in search results, particularly in the last quarter of this year.

This may be linked to companies such as Accenture and Nvidia announcing joint plans to accelerate agentic AI adoption (as well as Honeywell and Google Cloud).

Unlike traditional AI that merely responds to prompts, agentic AI autonomously creates workflows and acts based on user intent.

See worldwide search results for ‘agentic AI’ below.

OpenAI closed a $6.6 billion investment round

OpenAI secured a groundbreaking $6.6bn in its latest funding round, hailed as the “largest venture capital deal of all time.”

The fundraising valued the creator of ChatGPT at $157bn following its announcement of plans to transition to a for-profit structure within the next two years.

Notable investors included Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBank, Fidelity, Altimeter Capital, Khosla Ventures, MGX, and Thrive Capital.

Microsoft accused Google of a campaign to mislead the public and cloud regulators

In a Big Tech spat, Microsoft claimed Google initiated a covert campaign to “discredit” Microsoft and “tilt the regulatory landscape in favour of its cloud services.”

In a blog by Microsoft’s deputy general counsel, Rima Alaily, he stated that Google was about to launch a lobby group with a handful of smaller European cloud providers.

Alaily claimed that Google planned to remain a “backseat member” and allow the other cloud providers to be the group’s face. Still, one firm that chose not to join told Microsoft that the group’s purpose was to criticise Microsoft’s practices in Europe.

UK tech provided mixed reactions to the new government’s first budget

The UK’s new Labour government released its first budget statement, which included increased taxes for employers, an uptick in public spending, and a renewed commitment to focus on growth.

November: US Presidential Election Shakes Tech Sector

Trump vs Harris: key tech policies in the US presidential election

As the US presidential election approached, TI covered the key tech policies proposed by the Republican and Democratic parties.

These included AI and automation plans, such as Trump’s push to minimise AI regulation and Harris’s focus on promoting ethical AI use.

Both parties emphasised strengthening cybersecurity and taking antitrust actions against monopolistic companies.

However, they differed on cryptocurrency: Trump advocated for limited regulation to position the US as a crypto hub, while Harris supported stronger regulation to secure crypto markets and protect consumers.

What does Big Tech stand to gain or lose under a second Trump presidency?

Trump won the US presidential election, and TI analysed the pros and cons of a Republican party for Big Tech.

For instance, Trump threatened to impose 60-100% tariffs on goods from China, which could heavily affect companies such as Apple and Tesla. These companies depend heavily on continued access to the Chinese market and supply chains.

On the other hand, lighter regulation may benefit sectors such as crypto.

Air fryers may be secretly sizzling data

When you threw those sweet potato fries into the air fryer drawer, did you consider that your data may have been stolen in the process?

Consumer rights watchdog Which? warned shoppers that air fryers and other electronic products made in China may collect unnecessary data and share it with third parties.

According to Which? the Xiamoi app, which comes with smart air fryers like Xiaomoi, Cosori, and Aigostar, was linked to ad trackers on platforms such as Facebook and Tencent.

It also requested gender and date of birth when users set up an account, which it reportedly shared with servers in China.

Coca-Cola’s AI-generated ‘Holidays are coming’ ad sparked debate

Coca-Cola’s annual fleet of trucks appeared on our screens — except this time, the entire ad was AI-generated.

The ad sparked controversy online, with one X user calling it “soulless garbage.” It was produced by three AI studios, using generative AI models Leonardo, Luma, Runway, and Kling.

Two subsea cables were severed in the Baltic Sea

Two subsea cables connecting Germany with Finland and Lithuania with Sweden were severed over the course of one weekend.

While the cause remained unknown, Finnish state-controlled cybersecurity and telecoms company Cinia stated such an event does not happen “without an outside impact.”

Neither of the incidents affected internet traffic, as other subsea cable routes were available.

December: The Law Denies Big Tech’s Appeals

A US judge rejected Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package

Elon Musk’s four-year-old child (X Æ A-12) may not get so many presents this Christmas, as a Delaware judge upheld her decision to void his $56bn Tesla pay package.

The judge ruled that the car manufacturer’s board of directors failed to act in the best interests of shareholders when devising Musk’s 2018 compensation deal. She cited conflicts of interest and material misstatements made to investors.

ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus warned of AI in the music industry

A study by the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) found that human creators are “set to lose billions” due to GenAI.

Abba’s co-founder and president of CISAC, Björn Ulvaeus, responded to the report by warning that poorly regulated AI has “the power to cause great damage to human creators, to their careers and livelihoods.”

The CMA approved the £16.5bn Vodafone and Three deal and set terms for UK telecom’s future

The British telecoms sector saw a significant milestone as the UK Competition and Markets Authority approved the merger of Vodafone and Three, paving the way for a £16.5bn ($21bn) alliance.

The deal required several legal obligations, including a commitment to spend £11bn ($14bn) improving 5G connectivity services nationwide. (London is rated one of the worst capital cities in Europe for 5G connectivity). The deal brings together the UK’s fourth and third biggest operators.

A federal court upheld a ruling on TikTok forcing it to sell or face a US ban by 2025

A federal appeals court supported its decision requiring TikTok’s Chinese partner company, ByteDance, to sell its US operations or face a nationwide ban. It has until 19 January 2025 to comply with the ruling. If it fails, the app could be disabled for 170 million American users.

However, TikTok has vowed to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, arguing that the law infringes on free speech rights and unfairly singles out the platform.

Google unveiled a quantum chip

Finally, as a holiday gift, Google unveiled its quantum chip, Willow. It said that the chip could perform a standard computation in under five minutes, which would take today’s fastest supercomputer an inconceivable amount of time (ten septillion years).

Google Quantum AI’s founder and lead, Hartmut Neven, added that the new chip moves the firm “significantly” toward commercially relevant applications.

Missed the rest of the year? Read our roundups of Q1, Q2, and Q3 to catch up.

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The regulator said it will leverage powers granted to it under the UK’s Online Safety Act to introduce rules to combat criminal harms, including terrorism, fraud, hate speech, child sexual abuse, and the encouragement of suicide.

The new safety requirements will apply to various types of online services, including social media platforms, search engines, messaging apps, gaming and dating platforms, as well as pornography and file-sharing sites.

Companies have until March 17, 2025, to implement the safety measures.

Changes firms must make include designating a senior leader within their top governance team who will be responsible for ensuring compliance with the rules around illegal content, as well as the reporting and handling of complaints.

It also requires tech firms to ensure their moderation teams are appropriately resourced and trained. This means setting performance targets in order to remove illegal material swiftly, making reporting and complaints functions easier for users to find and use, and optimising algorithms to ensure illegal content is harder to distribute.

Child safety online

The new codes also aim to enforce measures to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation online.

This will mean platforms should ensure children’s accounts and locations are not visible to users other than their friends, as default.

Children must also receive information from the platforms to educate them on the risk of sharing personal information, and children’s accounts should not be suggested as connections.

The online watchdog quotes children from the age of 14-17 who are said to have received messages asking for bikini photos in exchange for money, or other unwanted invitations.

“I don’t want my siblings to go through what I did on social media. I feel happy about these measures because I know that my sisters and siblings would feel safe,” said one girl, aged 14.

Another 14 year old added: “[This will be] effective because no more strangers can be added, there are no more creeps sending things, and it will decrease grooming.”

According to an Ofcom study, many young people felt interactions with strangers, including adults or users perceived to be adults, are currently an inevitable part of being online—they described becoming ‘desensitised’ to receiving sexualised messages.

Fraud and terrorism

Ofcom also aims to tackle fraud by ensuring sites and apps establish a dedicated reporting channel for organisations with fraud expertise.

The regulator said that this would allow them to flag known scams to platforms in real time so that action can be taken.

It also requires sites to remove users and accounts that spread terrorist content.

“For too long, sites and apps have been unregulated, unaccountable and unwilling to prioritise people’s safety over profits,” said Melanie Dawes, Ofcom’s chief executive.

“The safety spotlight is now firmly on tech firms and it’s time for them to act. We’ll be watching the industry closely to ensure firms match up to the strict safety standards set for them under our first codes and guidance, with further requirements to follow swiftly in the first half of next year,” she added.

The UK Parliament set Ofcom a deadline of 18 months after the Online Safety Act was passed, on October 26th, 2023, to finalise its illegal harms and children’s safety codes of practice and guidance.

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