{"id":128801,"date":"2020-01-22T01:01:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/22\/watchdog-cracks-down-on-tech-firms-that-fail-to-protect-children\/"},"modified":"2020-01-22T01:01:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T00:01:10","slug":"watchdog-cracks-down-on-tech-firms-that-fail-to-protect-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=128801","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog cracks down on tech firms that fail to protect children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sites must assess content for sexual abuse and suicide risk or face fines of up to \u00a317mTechnology companies will be required to assess their sites for sexual abuse risks, prevent self-harm and pro-suicide content, and block children from broadcasting their location, after the publication of new rules for \u201cage-appropriate design\u201d in the sector.The UK Information Commissioner\u2019s Office, which was tasked with creating regulations to protect children online, will enforce the new rules from autumn 2021, after one-year transition period. After which companies that break the law can face sanctions comparable to those under GDPR, including fines of up to \u00a317m or 4% of global turnover. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/jan\/22\/tech-firms-fail-protect-children-sexual-abuse-suicide-safety-privacy\" target=\"_blank\">Watchdog cracks down on tech firms that fail to protect children<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sites must assess content for sexual abuse and suicide risk or face fines of up to \u00a317mTechnology companies will be required to assess their sites for sexual abuse risks, prevent self-harm and pro-suicide content, and block children from broadcasting their location, after the publication of new rules for \u201cage-appropriate design\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}