UK Online Safety Act enforcement begins with Ofcom issuing first compliance notices to major platforms

Ofcom commenced formal enforcement of the Online Safety Act, serving compliance notices on Meta, Snap, Discord and six other platforms requiring them to demonstrate how their systems identify and remove child sexual exploitation and abuse content, including grooming and sextortion, within 90 days. The regulator specified that platforms must provide evidence of proactive detection mechanisms rather than relying solely on user reports, with fines of up to ten percent of global annual turnover available for non-compliance, and indicated that AI-generated abuse material and cross-platform offender behaviour are priority assessment areas.

The Meta Business Partner and Startmate-backed platform Guardii delivers the proactive, pattern-based detection infrastructure the regulation now mandates. Operating across the ecosystem where harm actually occurs, its real-time detection modules for grooming, sextortion, CSAM and age-inappropriate contact analyse the shape and escalation of direct-message exchanges without storing or surfacing message content to platform operators, blocking hostile contact before it reaches a child and flagging high-risk conversations for rapid review, enabling platforms to demonstrate compliance with their duty of care while preserving user privacy and reducing the volume of material human moderators must assess.