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Earlier this week, Ofcom, the communications industry regulator, fined the BBC £50,000 in relation to a faked winner of a Blue Peter phone-in competition last year. This is the first time that any media regulator has fined the BBC, which has confirmed that payment of the fine will be made from TV licence fees.

In January 2025, Ofcom opened an enforcement programme under the Online Safety Act to monitor compliance with regulated services' duties to implement highly effective...

Ofcom has launched its first investigation of illegal harms under the Online Safety Act. It is investigating an online suicide discussion forum.

Under the Online Safety Act, websites that publish their own pornography must have highly effective age checks in place to stop children accessing this material. Search and user-to-user services...

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has announced that Apple Inc, the software and hardware giant, has agreed to change its contractual terms and conditions to make them fairer for consumers.

In today’s society where a large portion of the population uses online accounts for a vast array of purposes, it’s important that individuals keep their online logins and passwords safe and also that this information is kept somewhere accessible for the next of kin or will executor to find on the event of the person passing away.

The UK's communications regulator, Ofcom, has taken further enforcement action under the Online Safety Act (OSA), showing how it plans to respond to child sexual abuse material...

The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) have published a new set of Good Practice Principles in relation to Behavioural Advertising, an increasingly popular way of targeting advertising to internet users.

Prison sentences and higher financial penalties for breaches of data protection laws are expected to be introduced in the near future, following discussions between the Information Commissioner's Office and the Ministry of Justice.

Privacy campaigners have accused some of the biggest UK companies of spying on their customers via the internet. The reason for this is that companies are now using special software which allows them to scan websites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for negative comments about their services.

Tuesday 10th February, marks Safer Internet Day across the UK and in more than a hundred other countries across the world.

By now almost everyone will be familiar with the concept of online gaming, Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (or MMORPGs) and virtual worlds.

Widespread use of email and increasingly advanced mobile phones has created wider opportunities for advertising. However, unsolicited email and texts are often unwelcome and put customers off, rather than encouraging them to buy.

We have all noticed the huge surge in Internet demand across the globe, even prior to the last six months.

Mobile phone internet users are now protected from 'shock' mobile phone bills for surfing the internet.