[RichardCoulter]

Following considerations requested by various parties to the previous Government and the new Government, the King's Speech is expected to announce a strengthening of the Online Safety Act.

One such change involves cases where bereaved parents demand access to data to help them understand what their child was looking at before taking their own lives.

At the moment they don't have a legal right to this information and website owners have responded by being deliberately awkward and protracting matters, outright refusing the request altogether or even telling them that the data has been deleted.

No indication has been made that a duty of candour on website owners will be required as requested. If it isn't pressure will continue to be put on legislators by the various individuals and groups fighting for a safer Internet.

This would make it an offence for website owners to impede, frustrate or delay, for example, a coroners investigation.

At the moment the attitude seems to be that of, we don't have to help, so we won't and if we do decide to, we'll make it as difficult as we possibly can.

No doubt they will complain about more regulation being imposed on them, but this could have been avoided had they had a professional & decent attitude and been humane towards those who have already suffered enough.