{"id":11441,"date":"2023-09-06T10:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/social-media-firms-risk-humongous-fines-if-they-grant-access-to-under-13s\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T10:37:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:37:54","slug":"social-media-firms-risk-humongous-fines-if-they-grant-access-to-under-13s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/social-media-firms-risk-humongous-fines-if-they-grant-access-to-under-13s\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media firms risk \u2018humongous\u2019 fines if they grant access to under-13s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology secretary Michelle Donelan says online safety bill will enable Ofcom to fine firms up to 10% of their global turnover<\/p>\n<p>Social media firms could face \u201chumongous\u201d fines if they fail to block the accounts of under-13s, the technology secretary has said.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Donelan made the comments on the eve of the long-awaited online safety bill returning to parliament for its final stages on Wednesday after numerous delays.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/sep\/05\/social-media-firms-risk-humongous-fines-if-they-grant-access-to-under-13s\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7f1fe6a0a6a4ceafdf62f155c5c65ef8630635f6\/0_0_5000_3002\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=03b179de4394060f593a727b258721da\" title=\"Social media firms risk \u2018humongous\u2019 fines if they grant access to under-13s\" \/>Technology secretary Michelle Donelan says online safety bill will enable Ofcom to fine firms up to 10% of their global turnover<br \/>\nSocial media firms could face \u201chumongous\u201d fines if they fail to block the accounts of under-13s, the technology secretary has said.<br \/>\nMichelle Donelan made the comments on the eve of the long-awaited online safety bill returning to parliament for its final stages on Wednesday after numerous delays. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology secretary Michelle Donelan says online safety bill will enable Ofcom to fine firms up to 10% of their global turnover Social media firms could face \u201chumongous\u201d fines if they fail to block the accounts of under-13s, the technology secretary has said. Michelle Donelan made the comments on the eve of the long-awaited online safety &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/social-media-firms-risk-humongous-fines-if-they-grant-access-to-under-13s\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social media firms risk \u2018humongous\u2019 fines if they grant access to under-13s<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}