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Oscar Hornstein @ UK Tech News 1 place · today 11:11 EDT

Ofcom issues largest-ever Online Safety Act fine

Ofcom has issued the largest fine to date under the Online Safety Act (OSA), demanding that 8579 LLC pays £1.35m for failing to implement age verification on its pornographic sites. The regulator launched an investigation into the company, which owns dozens of adult sites, days after the OSA’s age-restricted content rules came into force in ...

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