Response to Ofcom's call for evidence on researcher access to information
Our response to Ofcom’s call for evidence for researcher access to information is available as a PDF at the bottom of this page.
Our response to Ofcom’s call for evidence for researcher access to information is available as a PDF at the bottom of this page.
Our response to Ofcom’s consultation on its draft Plan of Work 2025/6 is available as a PDF at the bottom of this page.
The OSA Network submission to the call for evidence from the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee to inform its inquiry into “Social Media, Misinformation and Harmful Algorithms” can be found as a PDF at the bottom of this page.
The Secretary of State’s Draft Statement of Strategic Priorities (SSP) for Online Safety was published in November 2024. Our response, a version of which was submitted to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in December 2024, is available as a PDF below and reflects some of the themes and concerns that have emerged in discussions facilitated by the Network since the publication of the SSP. We do not speak on behalf of the organisations we work with but we are grateful to the following organisations for their contributions and support for this response:
Our full response to the Ofcom consultation on their draft transparency guidance is available as a PDF below.
Our response to the UNESCO consultation on AI governance is attached as a PDF below.
Our full response to Ofcom’s consultation on the animal cruelty and torture offences, an extension of its illegal harms proposals, along with an updated measures table at Annex A, are attached as PDFs below.
Response to Ofcom’ s Online Safety Act protection of children’s consultation from: NSPCC, Refuge, End Violence Against Women Coalition, 5 Rights Foundation, Centre for Protecting Women Online, Glitch, Suzy Lamplugh Trust, Safe Lives, UCL Gender and Tech Research Unit, Prof Lorna Woods (University of Essex), Prof Clare McGlynn (University of Durham) and the Online Safety Act Network.
Executive Summary 1. Ofcom’s powers were not designed to provide individuals with redress. Their powers are inadequate to respond to the need for thousands of images, across many websites to be removed. Any orders made would relate to the service overall not individual items of content and would come at the end of a lengthy enforcement process and are designed to be exceptional. 2. Suggestions to add intimate image abuse offences to the priority offences in the Online safety Act therefore will not solve the problem of failing to get specific material removed from the internet.