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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
The EU version of the forthcoming Online Safety Act is now going through. It's called the Online Services Act.
According to the BBC's Media Show, it's expected to affect the UK as EU legislation usually becomes a defacto global model, such as the GDPR. I'm assuming that this is because companies find it easier to work to a standard set of rules.
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The EU is implementing the Digital Services Act, and it differs in a crucial respect from the UK’s Online Safety Bill (it isn’t an Act until Parliament has passed it and it gets Royal assent). The EU measures do not attempt to force services to break their own encryption to allow GCHQ, MI5 or your local council to snoop on your WhatsApp account whenever they feel it necessary. In other respects it is similar in that that requires online service providers to do better at data profiling and dealing with inappropriate content or abuse of their services.