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Rebecca’s comments have been reproduced below with kind permission.
Rebecca Smart, criminal lawyer and online safety expert at law firm Payne Hicks Beach, said the OSA had clearly “made some headway” in protecting children.
But she said “the current enforcement regime may not provide a strong enough deterrent to drive full compliance”.
“There should be severe penalties for services that do not have appropriate age checks in place to protect these children,” she said.
“Without stronger accountability and enforcement, children will remain vulnerable to online harms that the OSA was designed to prevent.”
Rebecca’s comments have also been featured in the Solicitors Journal: https://www.solicitorsjournal.com/sjarticle/online-safety-regulator-warns-of-risks?category=Newshttps://bmmagazine.co.uk/tech/tiktok-ofcom-investigation-child-age-checks/ and Business Matters: TikTok faces Ofcom investigation over child age checks
