Day Three, 5 Feb
In focus: Take a deep dive into key topics that are relevant to your business
14:30 – 15:30 (GMT): Online safety worldwide: international regulatory coherence panel and Q&A
How international regulators and online services are approaching the challenge of different regulatory demands: a conversation with our panellists about key developments and practical approaches in online safety worldwide.
Session highlights:
- Panel session: the international perspective on online safety
- Q&A
15:45 – 16:25 (GMT): Deep dive: What it means to ‘low risk’, with Q&A
All online services need to identify, manage and mitigate risks of illegal content. For some, the risks on their service are low. For others, they may be higher or more complex. This session is designed to support services who think they may be low risk for all kinds of illegal harm. Among other things, it will cover the scope of the law, how to make and record decisions in your risk assessment, and the minimum safety measures that apply to all – such as certain governance, content reporting and complaints handling measures.
Session highlights:
- Understanding which parts of your service the law applies to
- Ensuring your ‘low risk’ decision is robust and evidence-based
- Ofcom’s recommended safety measures for all services
- Examples
- Q&A
16:35 – 17:15 (GMT): Deep dive: How to tackle complex risks, including child sexual abuse, grooming and fraud
A deep dive on our recommendations to tackle higher risks of online harms such as child sexual exploitation and abuse (including grooming and child sexual abuse material). We also cover our recommendations for services with one or many higher risk levels, which can include content moderation measures, testing recommender system algorithms, and reporting by trusted flaggers.
Session highlights:
- What ‘high risk’ and ‘multi risk’ means in our guidance
- Understand our measures to tackle specific harms (e.g. child sexual exploitation and abuse, and fraud)
- Understand our ‘multi risk’ safety measures and how they tackle multiple harms
- Examples
- Q&A
17:25 – 18:25 (GMT): Deep dive: What the online safety duties mean for services that allow pornography – age assurance and beyond, with Q&A
This session is for services that allow pornographic content on their site or app. It may also be of interest to those who want to know more about the concept of highly effective age assurance and how the new rules will prevent children from encountering pornographic content online.
Session highlights:
- Reminder of the rules for services allowing pornographic content
- Introduction to our approach to highly effective age assurance, with examples and implementation considerations
- Q&A