Online Safety Act & Ofcom for Games

Table of content

1. What is the Online Safety Act, and are games in scope?
2. Do I need to care about complying?
3. What do games have to do to comply
4. Summary

Preamble

This is a comprehensive and detailed guide specifically focused around the Online Safety Act and Ofcom’s regulation in relation to the gaming industry.

I (Andrew Wailes, CEO, PlaySafe ID) have gone through well over 1,000 pages of legislation from the UK Government and statements from Ofcom (the independent regulator appointed by the UK gov to enforce the OSA) to produce the following guide on how the Online Safety Act specifically impacts games.

As a note, I have read everything manually and have written this myself. There was no AI used in the production of this guide.