Handley Gill
LEGAL, REGULATORY & COMPLIANCE CONSULTANTS

Online Safety, Content moderation & Regulation

As the Online Safety Bill progresses and the Digital Services Act comes into force, platforms and publishers need to ensure that they have in place robust systems to identify, assess and manage user generated content risk, with mechanisms for the removal of unlawful or harmful content. At Handley Gill, we support organisations to understand their obligations and implement compliance frameworks.

Online Safety, Content Moderation & Regulation

Safe-harbour provisions intended to protect online hosts and other intermediaries from liability in respect of third party and user generated content are being gradually chipped away. Liability for data protection, defamation and other unlawful content can now befall organisations which fail to impose appropriate monitoring and moderation of content, or don’t respond swiftly and effectively when faced with a complaint.

First the EU’s Digital Services Act and now the UK’s Online Safety Act 2023 only serve to expand the scope of organisations who need to take these issues into account, and increase the obligations on affected organisations, bringing additional regulation, complexity and cost.

We advise organisations on their obligations, assist them to put in place appropriate procedures, and advise on their responses to specific decisions and complaints, balancing competing principles and rights.

We also engage with organisations in relation to what forthcoming legislation could mean for their organisation, and support them in their lobbying efforts.

Access our Online Safety and Online Harms Resources page.

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On Hand March 2024
On Hand March 2024

The March 2024 edition of Handley Gill’s monthly digital newsletter, On Hand, with all the latest developments in data protection (UK, EU and global), cyber security, AI and machine learning, content regulation, open justice, access to information, reputation management, digital markets regulation, human rights & ESG. Presented in a readily digestible digital format, those who prefer the traditional newsletter format can export the newsletter to pdf.

AI regulation in the UK: in out in out shake it all about
AI regulation in the UK: in out in out shake it all about

Handley Gill’s consultants analyse the Government’s response to its consultation on the White Paper ‘A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation’, published on 06 February 2024, and its implications for AI developers and UK creators, business and the public, identifying the steps the Government has committed to take.

Commended
Commended

Team at Handley Gill Limited receive an award commending the legal services provide to its client, the City of London Corporation acting in its capacity as police authority for the City of London Police in connection with the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s (NPCC’s) National Cybercrime Programme, which the City hosts.

Regulation regeneration?
Regulation regeneration?

Handley Gill’s consultants respond to the Department for Business and Trade’s consultation on ‘Smarter Regulation and the Regulatory Landscape’, drawing on their experience of advising and representing individuals and regulated entities on data protection, online safety, content regulation, AI, human rights and ESG issues before regulators including the Information Commissioner’s Office, Ofcom and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

Online Safety. This looks like a job for...
Online Safety. This looks like a job for...

Handley Gill’s specialist online safety consultants respond to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology’s consultation on ‘Super-complaints: eligible entity criteria and procedural requirements’ under the Online Safety Act 2023. Ofcom will be responsible for considering super-complaints.