April 2022
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This conference examined priorities for online regulation in the UK and the outlook for the draft Online Safety Bill including new criminal offences and further measures for platforms that are being added to a revised bill.
It was a timely opportunity to discuss the Online Safety Bill, as well as further measures outlined in the Online Harms White Paper.
Areas for discussion included:
- the potential impact of measures in the Bill across the tech and related sectors, online users and other stakeholder groups
- implications and practicalities for regulation
- wider options for reducing online harm
- protections for users - including privacy and the rights of children - alongside political discourse, journalism, and free expression
- the social responsibility of online platforms
- priorities for protecting children and young people online - media literacy, creating safe spaces online, and learning from the ICO’s Age Appropriate Design Code
We were pleased to be able to include keynote sessions with Sarah Connolly, Director, Security and Online Harms, DCMS; Richard Wronka, Director for Online Harms, Ofcom; and Professor Lorna Woods, Professor of Internet Law, University of Essex - as well as contributions from BT; Childnet International; Google; Meta; Information Commissioner’s Office; Osborne Clarke; Snap; techUK; and TikTok.
The chairs were Baroness Beeban Kidron, Founder and Chair, 5Rights Foundation; and Rt Hon Jeremy Wright QC MP, former Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
The conference was an opportunity for stakeholders to consider the issues alongside key policy officials who attended from DCMS; Ofcom; the NCA; the CMA; the ICO; BEIS; Defra; the Department for Communities, NI; DIT; the FCDO; the FSA; the GLD; HMRC; the Home Office; the IPO; Office of Communications; Office of the Children’s Commissioner; and the Welsh Government - as well as parliamentary pass-holders from both House of Parliament and POST.
