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'''The Online Safety Act 2023''' is a United Kingdom law designed to regulate online content and impose new safety duties on digital platforms. Enforced by [[Ofcom]], the Act grants regulators powers to fine or restrict access to services that fail to address harmful or illegal online material.{{Citation needed}} Marketed as a measure to protect children and vulnerable users, the Act has attracted significant criticism regarding its impact on consumer rights, free expression, and digital privacy.{{Citation needed}}

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====Privacy====

The law empowers [[Ofcom]] to compel messaging services to implement scanning tools, including within encrypted channels.{{Citation needed}} Privacy advocates argue this effectively undermines end-to-end encryption, forcing consumers to compromise their security for compliance.{{Citation needed}} Services like [[Signal]] and [[WhatsApp]] have threatened to withdraw from the UK rather than weaken user privacy protections.{{Citation needed}}

The law empowers [[Ofcom]] to compel messaging services to implement scanning tools, including within encrypted channels.{{Citation needed}} Privacy advocates argue this effectively undermines end-to-end

encryption, forcing consumers to compromise their security for compliance.{{Citation needed}} Services like [[Signal]] and [[WhatsApp]] have threatened to withdraw from the UK rather than weaken user privacy protections.{{Citation needed}}

====Business model====

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===Encryption controversy (2023)===

Major technology firms, including [[Meta]] and [[apple]], publicly opposed provisions requiring proactive content detection in encrypted messaging.{{Citation needed}} They argued the law would compromise encryption or make the UK an ~~unviable~~ market for secure communications, impacting millions of consumers.{{Citation needed}}

Major technology firms, including [[Meta]] and [[apple]], publicly opposed provisions requiring proactive content detection in encrypted messaging.{{Citation needed}} They argued the law would compromise encryption or make the UK an nonviable market for secure communications, impacting millions of consumers.{{Citation needed}}

==See also==

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 '''The Online Safety Act 2023''' is a United Kingdom law designed to regulate online content and impose new safety duties on digital platforms. Enforced by [[Ofcom]], the Act grants regulators powers to fine or restrict access to services that fail to address harmful or illegal online material.{{Citation needed}} Marketed as a measure to protect children and vulnerable users, the Act has attracted significant criticism regarding its impact on consumer rights, free expression, and digital privacy.{{Citation needed}}
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 ====Privacy====
-The law empowers [[Ofcom]] to compel messaging services to implement scanning tools, including within encrypted channels.{{Citation needed}} Privacy advocates argue this effectively undermines end-to-end encryption, forcing consumers to compromise their security for compliance.{{Citation needed}} Services like [[Signal]] and [[WhatsApp]] have threatened to withdraw from the UK rather than weaken user privacy protections.{{Citation needed}}
+The law empowers [[Ofcom]] to compel messaging services to implement scanning tools, including within encrypted channels.{{Citation needed}} Privacy advocates argue this effectively undermines end-to-end
+encryption, forcing consumers to compromise their security for compliance.{{Citation needed}} Services like [[Signal]] and [[WhatsApp]] have threatened to withdraw from the UK rather than weaken user privacy protections.{{Citation needed}}
 ====Business model====
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 ===Encryption controversy (2023)===
-Major technology firms, including [[Meta]] and [[apple]], publicly opposed provisions requiring proactive content detection in encrypted messaging.{{Citation needed}} They argued the law would compromise encryption or make the UK an unviable market for secure communications, impacting millions of consumers.{{Citation needed}}
+Major technology firms, including [[Meta]] and [[apple]], publicly opposed provisions requiring proactive content detection in encrypted messaging.{{Citation needed}} They argued the law would compromise encryption or make the UK an nonviable market for secure communications, impacting millions of consumers.{{Citation needed}}
 ==See also==