UK passes the Online Safety Act
Apparently “The Online Safety Act applies to every service which handles user-generated content and has “links to the UK”, with a few limited exceptions listed below. The scope is extraterritorial (like the GDPR) so even sites entirely operated outside the UK are in scope if they are considered to have “links to the UK”.”
A service has links to the UK if any of the following apply: – the service has a “significant number” of UK users – UK users form one of the target markets for the service – the service is accessible to UK users and “there are reasonable grounds to believe that there is a material risk of significant harm to individuals in the UK” (this seems less likely to apply for smaller services but who knows)
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