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 38 controls organised across 5 domains, and applies in the United Kingdom (Ofcom).
How UK Online Safety Act 2023 maps to other frameworks
All 38 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
Frameworks that share controls with UK Online Safety Act 2023
Each of these has at least one control mapped to a control in UK Online Safety Act 2023. The number is how many UK Online Safety Act 2023 controls are shared, counted from the mapping graph.
Where UK Online Safety Act 2023 overlaps with the standards you already hold
Where to get trained on UK Online Safety Act 2023
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What an auditor will ask you for
All 19 UK Online Safety Act 2023 controls, each with what it requires, the artefacts an auditor will ask you for, and where it commonly fails. Free to read, nothing to fill in.
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Query UK Online Safety Act 2023 programmatically
UK Online Safety Act 2023, its 38 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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