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Children’s tsar urges parents to ditch their phones during festive family time

Dame Rachel de Souza’s comments came as she launched a new guide offering parents tips and advice for online safety, as well as around screen time.

Evening Standard

Parents told not to do everyday habit during Christmas

Dame Rachel admitted she had previously been ‘as guilty’ on the issue

The Independent UK

File-sharing service fined £20,000 amid Online Safety Act crackdown

Ofcom launched an investigation into Im.ge in June, alongside six other file-sharing services.

Evening Standard

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Ofcom says it’s investigating Three and BT to see if they ‘failed’ customers during this year’s big outages

The BT, EE, and Three networks collapsed to such an extent in June and July that regulators are getting involved.

TechRadar

‘Watered down’ plans for STV news revamp still ‘bad for journalism’, says union

The broadcaster now proposes 30% of its teatime news programme in the north will have content specific to the area.

Evening Standard

Regulator ‘proposes to accept’ STV plan for retaining news services in north

While the STV News At 6 programme will be produced and presented from Glasgow about 30% of the programme in the north will be specific to the area.

The Independent UK

Amazon apologises after 15-rated movie is shown to a child who rented PG film

Amazon rented romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs rather than intended PG film

The Independent UK

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Ofcom investigating two UK phone networks after major outages

Customers were unable to make or receive calls to other networks and, critically, to emergency services

The Independent UK

BT and Three facing Ofcom investigations after outages

The outages resulted in disruption to mobile call services, including to emergency services, across the UK, Ofcom said.

Evening Standard

‘The UK needs some media free of US control’: Comcast’s move for ITV starts to focus minds

With public service broadcasters starting to look like ‘endangered species’, many want Channel 4 and BBC to work more closely

The Guardian - UK

Card Factory issues shock profit warning during peak Christmas period

Retailer, which also owns Funky Pigeon, says economic pressure has hit shoppers’ confidence

The Guardian - UK

Royal Mail issues Christmas delivery warning for dozens of UK postcodes including London

The postal service says these delays are the result of an increasing strain on the service in the run-up to Christmas

Evening Standard

Online safety debate: peer claims kids' VPNs 'expose devices to viruses'

A Lib Dem peer has raised concerns about unsafe VPN apps in a debate in the House of Lords.

TechRadar

UK porn site traffic plunges since age checks – but VPN use up

Age verification became mandatory on 25 July this year as part of the Online Safety Act

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The Guardian - UK

UK porn traffic down since beginning of age checks but VPN use up, says Ofcom

Visitor numbers to UK’s 10 most-visited services have settled at a ‘lower level’ than before 25 July, report finds

The Independent UK

Religious TV channel fined for breaching multiple broadcasting rules

The Word Network promoted unsubstantiated medical treatments and exploited vulnerable viewers

The Guardian - UK

When a chatbot’s advice is a matter of life or death, how can we leave AI to the free market wild west?

As suicides in the US are blamed on ChatGPT and UK teenagers turn to it for mental health advice, we need clear rules – and we the people must set them, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

TechRadar

Ofcom wants to double down on file monitoring in 2026

Experts are concerned about the precedent it may set for users' privacy, despite Ofcom ensuring that measures should not break "end-to-end encryption."

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The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on regulating pornography: a £1m fine does not prove the Online Safety Act is working

Editorial: As technology advances, so does the problems it causes. Ministers as well as regulators need to be tough and proactive

TechRadar

UK issues £1 million fine to adult platform for failing to comply with age verification rules

AVS Group Ltd also got hit with an additional £50,000 fee for failing to respond to information requests as Ofcom strenghts its grip on Online Safety Act's enforcement.

The Independent UK

Porn company fined £1 million for age verification failures

AVS Group operates 18 adult websites

The Guardian - UK

Pornography company fined £1m by Ofcom for not having strong enough age checks

AVS Group, which runs 18 websites, has 72 hours to make changes required by UK’s Online Safety Act

Evening Standard

Pornography provider fined £1m by watchdog over weak age checks

AVS Group Ltd has been hit with the fine, plus a further £50,000 for failing to respond to information requests.

Evening Standard

Ofcom probing how social media firms remove illegal hate and terror content

MPs raised concerns over the volume of antisemitic content on X after the Manchester synagogue attack.

The Independent UK

‘Alarming’ study shows scale of social media use among nursery-aged children

Children who haven’t yet learned to read are ‘being fed content and algorithms designed to hook adults’

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