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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
From today Ofcom is able to issue a 'Preserve data notice' to websites. This is to prevent data from being deleted and lost.
This will be invaluable for cases where children have lost their lives and websites are believed to have contributed to or caused this, but the sites either refuse to hand over the data to delay matters or say that it's been deleted.
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Although as mentioned; I’m sure more than once, if said site is based abroad and they simply give OFCOM the proverbial finger, then what?
Or it is a UK-based site but they claim that ‘a hardware failure’ deleted all the data, then what? Or, ‘we suffered from an unfortunate (sophisticated, state-backed) hack, which alas has deleted all of our records, sorry about that; then what?
What will happen is that the larger sites, probably the ones who do make an effort to filter out, shall we say ‘unsavoury material’, will do their best, or decide that it;s not worth it and pay lip service to blocking connections from the UK. I say ‘lip-service’ because anyone working in this field knows that it’s not as easy to do as it might seem and, cough, VPNs and proxies.
Of course the less salubrious sites who probably do host the majority of this material will ignore OFCOM as being the paper tiger that it is and carry on.
The OSA - somehow I don’t think this was well thought out!