A pivotal year for online safety - a look ahead to the key developments to expect in the rest of 2023 and beyond

There has been much discussion across the globe over the past couple of years regarding the need to improve safety online. 2023 is the year that we are finally seeing ambitious proposals from governments become a reality, with onerous obligations on the biggest platforms coming into force, and new regimes expected to pass into law.

The internet is a global phenomenon, and platforms’ responses to the online safety landscape must be considered holistically and through the global lens. To help platforms do this, we have prepared a new publication looking ahead to the biggest online safety law developments across key jurisdictions in the rest of 2023 and beyond. This builds on our comparative analysis piece published in 2021.

This publication includes crucial developments across the following jurisdictions: 

• The EU
• France
• The UK
• Singapore
• The U.S.
• Ireland
• Australia