The tortuously slow progress of the bill – it was introduced in the House of Commons in March 2022 and includes measures initially from a white paper published in April 2019 – has led to rising concerns that the bill is failing to keep up with emerging safeguarding threats in the digital realm.
The ambition to create a piece of legislation that makes the UK “the safest place for children to go online” is to be applauded and recognises the need to place more responsibility on the providers of digital services to ensure their products are safe for children and young people to use and set out the penalties for them failing to do that.
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