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The Online Safety Act's tensions with the UK GDPR
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The Online Safety Act is why you might have been asked for your driver's licence on Reddit, X, and some... other websites. In this video, I explain how the OSA works and how it raises tensions with the UK GDPR.
The OSA applies to "user-to-user" and search services with "links to the UK". This covers websites from social media giants to tiny online message boards.
Through a series of risk assessments, in-scope services must identify and mitigate risks around illegal content and harms to children.
To ensure services enforce their terms and keep kids away from inappropriate…
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