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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 15:51

Right. Ofcom's next online session is about "low risk" services.

I'll be tooting my thoughts in this thread.

Feel free to mute if you wish :)

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 15:54

"We haven't done a great deal of work about decentralised services in detail".

We can't give you a specific answer to who the provider might be.

(I fear "we can't help with that" will be a common theme.)

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 15:56

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 15:57

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 15:58

Nope. Skipped over that.

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 15:59

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:02

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:03

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:04

An excellent question from @cyberleagle, which Ofcom's webinar system has mangled badly:

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:06

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:08

Ofcom is using an example of a "small gaming service" with "around 15,000 monthly UK users".

I wonder if Ofcom recognises that many of the people worrying about the OSA are talking about services with 0.1% of that userbase?!

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:12

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:13

Even if low risk, you must have:

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:17

I'll try to find some spare time to write some template "not legal advice" terms and conditions, and complaints-related information.

Although, honestly, goodness knows how that applies in the context of, say,

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Written by Neil Brown on 2025-02-05 at 16:19

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Written by James Baillie on 2025-02-05 at 16:27

@neil How would they do spot checks? Which is to say, do they have a list of services that are in scope? If not, are they planning to compile one? One thing I don't recall seeing anywhere is any obligation to register with Ofcom or similar.

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Written by 💖🔞ShiDokiDoki🔞💖 on 2025-02-05 at 18:20

@JubalBarca @neil the act has some wording about user-to-user and search services registering with Ofcom over some kinda fee structure, although I did speed read so I have missed out some detail

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