UK Online Safety Act 2023
What is UK Online Safety Act 2023?
The UK Online Safety Act 2023 establishes a comprehensive regulatory framework for online safety, placing duties on user-to-user services and search services to protect users from illegal content and, for larger platforms, content harmful to children. Ofcom is the regulator. It comprises 5 controls organised across 5 domains, and applies in the United Kingdom (Ofcom).
How UK Online Safety Act 2023 maps to other frameworks
All 5 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 5 domains UK Online Safety Act 2023 groups its controls into
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Questions people ask about UK Online Safety Act 2023
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Query UK Online Safety Act 2023 programmatically
UK Online Safety Act 2023, its 5 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
UK Online Safety Act 2023 API reference and MCP config →What UK Online Safety Act 2023 requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one UK Online Safety Act 2023 control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- UKOSA-DC-02 Illegal Content Safety Duties
- UKOSA-DC-04 Children's Safety Duties
- UKOSA-DC-06 Content Reporting Mechanisms
- UKOSA-OFF-02 Threatening Communications Offence
- UKOSA-OFF-03 Intimate Image Abuse Offence
- UKOSA-OFF-04 CSAM Reporting to NCA
- UKOSA-OFF-05 Age Verification Requirements
- UKOSA-TR-01 Annual Transparency Reports
- UKOSA-TR-02 Content Moderation Information
- UKOSA-TR-03 Algorithmic Transparency
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