New rules for online services: what you need to know
Cyhoeddwyd: 27 Chwefror 2024
Diweddarwyd diwethaf: 9 Hydref 2024
The Online Safety Act makes businesses responsible for keeping people, especially children, safe online. Here’s what you need to know and do now.
Diogelu eich plentyn yn y byd digidol
Cyhoeddwyd: 18 Rhagfyr 2017
Diweddarwyd diwethaf: 8 Hydref 2024
Canllaw i'ch helpu i gymryd camau i ddiogelu eich plentyn rhag y peryglon posibl ar-lein
Investigating OnlyFans' compliance with its duties to protect under-18s from restricted material and respond to information requests
Cyhoeddwyd: 1 Mai 2024
Diweddarwyd diwethaf: 30 Awst 2024
Ofcom have opened an investigation into Fenix International Limited, the provider of VSP OnlyFans. The investigation concerns OnlyFans’ compliance with its statutory obligations under sections 368Y(3)(b) and (c), 368Z10(6), and 368Z1(2) of the Act.
Boosting children's safety online: Help Centres
Cyhoeddwyd: 8 Mai 2024
Diweddarwyd diwethaf: 30 Gorffennaf 2024
This online trial tested different ways to encourage children to access age-appropriate user support materials (or help centre) during the sign-up process of a mock social media platform.
Ymchwiliad i gydymffurfiaeth TikTok â chais statudol am wybodaeth
Cyhoeddwyd: 14 Rhagfyr 2023
Diweddarwyd diwethaf: 24 Gorffennaf 2024
Rydym yn ymchwilio i weld a yw TikTok wedi methu â chydymffurfio â'i ddyletswyddau i ddarparu gwybodaeth wrth ymateb i hysbysiad ffurfiol, yn y fath fodd a bennir gan Ofcom.
Dirwy o £1.875m i TikTok am ddarparu data anghywir ar reolaethau diogelwch
Cyhoeddwyd: 24 Gorffennaf 2024
Heddiw, mae Ofcom wedi rhoi dirwy o £1.875 miliwn i TikTok am fethu ymateb yn gywir i gais ffurfiol am wybodaeth am ei nodwedd ddiogelwch rheolaethau rhieni
Profiadau plant sy’n dod ar draws cynnwys ar-lein sy’n ymwneud ag anhwylderau bwyta, hunan-niweidio a hunanladdiad
Cyhoeddwyd: 21 Mehefin 2024
Quick guide to children’s access assessments
Cyhoeddwyd: 7 Mai 2024
Diweddarwyd diwethaf: 21 Mehefin 2024
Children’s access assessments are a new assessment that all user-to user-services and search services (‘Part 3 services’) regulated under the Online Safety Act must carry out to establish whether a service – or part of a service – is likely to be accessed by children.
Quick guide to children’s risk assessments: protecting children online
Cyhoeddwyd: 7 Mai 2024
Diweddarwyd diwethaf: 11 Mehefin 2024
This page summarises proposals we are consulting on – we will update this information when final documents are in place. Please note that this quick guide is intended to introduce your children’s risk assessment duties. Our guidance will set out your legal responsibilities in full.
A quick guide to Children’s Safety Codes
Cyhoeddwyd: 7 Mai 2024
Diweddarwyd diwethaf: 11 Mehefin 2024
Under the Online Safety Act, services that are likely to be accessed by children have new duties to comply with to protect children online. One way they can do that is to adopt the safety measures in Ofcom’s codes of practices.