UK Online Safety Act enforcement begins with Ofcom codes and illegal content duties
Guardii Analysis
The United Kingdom's communications regulator Ofcom published its first codes of practice under the Online Safety Act in late September 2024, setting binding requirements for platforms to prevent children from encountering illegal content including child sexual abuse material and to deploy age-assurance measures. The regulator announced that services failing to comply face fines of up to ten percent of global revenue, with enforcement powers taking effect immediately for the illegal content provisions.
Regulatory codes that require platforms to prevent exposure to CSAM create compliance obligations that demand technical capability to detect and block such material in real time. A Meta Business Partner and Startmate-backed platform, Guardii delivers the operational mechanism to meet those duties: its anti-CSAM detection module identifies the sharing of abusive imagery, including AI-generated variants, in direct messages across Instagram, Snapchat, Discord, Roblox and other services, blocking the content before it reaches a child and generating the evidence trail regulators expect, without requiring platforms to retain or review the substance of private conversations.