Online Safety Act 2023
UK law imposing safety duties on online platforms, enacted October 2023.
With Lords report stage on the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill set for 26 October 2026, peers have tabled AI amendments. The Online Safety Act 2023 shows a narrower Lords change that survived: Section 101, on coroners and children's data.
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The Online Safety Act 2023 became UK law on 26 October 2023. It makes Ofcom the regulator of certain internet services and creates new communications offences.
Section 101 came out of pressure in The House of Lords. During the bill's passage, peers pushed for bereaved parents to reach their dead children's social media data through coroners. Section 101 now lets Ofcom demand information from a service for a coroner's investigation into a child's death, and has been in force since 1 April 2024.
That clause is held up as a targeted Lords amendment that made it into the statute, in contrast with the broader AI duties peers have since attached to later bills, among them the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill.