UK plans to develop new laws to ensure safety in cyberspace

UK’s Digital Secretary Matt Hancock has announced new plans to create regulation to ensure that ‘the UK is the safest place in the world to be online’. According to the British government, there is a lack of sufficient oversight or transparency for technology companies, resulting in inappropriate and harmful content online, ranging from cyberbullying and intimidation to online child sexual exploitation and extremist material. While working closely with industry, the government will work on a white paper, to be published later this year, which will draft legislation against digital harms. The move is part of the UK’s Internet Safety Strategy.