We went out on the streets of Manchester to talk to people about safety online. This is because the government are looking at introducing a new act that would require age verification for people ...

Scammers are working harder than ever to trick people online, but WhatsApp is hitting back in a big way. In the first half of 2025, WhatsApp removed more than 6.8 million accounts tied to global scam ...

The U.K. Online Safety Act is aimed at preventing children from accessing potentially harmful material online, and internet ...

How do the age verification requirements of the UK’s Online Safety Act compare to similar laws around the world?

Within hours of Ofcom enforcing the new law last week, Gaza and Ukraine content was being blocked, while pickup artist ...

Dating safety app Tea suffered a breach of its own, compromising selfies, photo identification, and images from posts, comments, and direct messages within the app.

The measure is putting up roadblocks for people who want to read about world news, listen to music on Spotify, chat on ...

New safety rules require users to verify their identities before gaining access to sites. This spells the end of the relative anonymity that we’ve come to expect online.

Immigration agents and the public seem to be at odds with enforcement tactics leading to huge safety concerns on both sides.

It’s too early to know how this law will settle into full implementation, but its implications are clear: For determined kids ...

There are "plenty of AIs that will search the internet for pictures and then take that information and morph it into whatever ...