Integrity Institute Submits Response to Ofcom’s Consultation on Protecting Children from Harms Online

Written By Jeff Allen

On July 17th, 2024, the Integrity Institute submitted a comprehensive response to Ofcom's Consultation on Protecting Children from Harms Online, pertaining to recommendations for platforms to implement relating to protecting children under the Online Safety Act.

Built upon the expertise of our community, our submission highlights risks of age assurance, a focus on recommendation systems, support tools and controls provided for children, important content areas for consideration and other best practices such as privacy by default. We provide a necessary platform and technical perspective for the policy proposals and highlight our community of integrity professionals with deep child safety experience.

Thank you to our community members who got involved. We look forward to participating in Ofcom’s third and final consultation on transparency later this year.

Read our submission in full here.

Jeff Allen

Jeff Allen is the co-founder and chief research officer of the Integrity Institute. He was a data scientist at Facebook from 2016 to 2019. While at Facebook, he worked on tackling systemic issues in the public content ecosystems of Facebook and Instagram, developing strategies to ensure that the incentive structure that the platforms created for publishers was in alignment with Facebooks company mission statement.

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