| Heading: |
Social Media: Regulation |
| Question ID: |
1786954 |
| UIN: |
39835 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4124 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Chi Onwurah
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| Asking Member handle: |
ChiOnwurah
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@ChiOnwurah
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has plans to instruct Ofcom to conduct an impact assessment of the decision to designate end-to-end encryption as a risk factor in their Illegal Harms Codes of Practice and i |
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true |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-25 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4822 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Feryal Clark
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| Answering Member handle: |
FeryalClark
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@FeryalClark
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| Answer text: |
The Online Safety Act does not ban any service design, including end-to-end-encryption. Under the Act, providers must risk assess the design of their service. Ofcom can only recommend measures in codes of practice that are technically feasible. Separately... |
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| Answering body ID: |
216 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology |
| Tweeted: |
true |