Opinion

The Online Safety Bill: leveraging existing approaches to address new requirements?

Published Date
Jun 9, 2023
The UK continues to develop its online safety regime, and the proposed Online Safety Bill will establish new obligations to mitigate the risk of illegal or harmful content for individuals, particularly children. 
Hear our experts discuss how organisations can look to familiar regimes, such as data protection or financial services regulation, to leverage previous experience and gain insights to support compliance with their new online safety obligations.

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Maeve Hanna

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She has extensive experience of advising large and multi-national corporates in a wide range of areas including transaction-related...

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Benjamin Scrace

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London

In particular, he has experience of large compliance projects and complex regulatory matters in relation to UK GDPR, PECR, and the N...

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Steve Wood

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London

Prior to this, Steve spent 15 years at the UK ICO and took up his role as Deputy Information Commissioner in 2017. As Deputy, Steve ...