Understanding the Online Safety Act 2023
25 min! Run Time
Employees
only
of Completion
What you'll learn
Skills covered in this course
Description
The Online Safety Act 2023 is a significant step forward in regulating electronic communications, and it reshapes what service providers owe the people who use them.
What this course covers:
- What the Online Safety Act 2023 sets out to achieve
- How the Act regulates electronic communications
- The growing digital safety concerns behind the legislation
- The responsibilities service providers carry for protecting users
For teams in online services, compliance and digital policy who need a working understanding of this online safety regulation.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
Author
Understanding the Online Safety Act 2023
Frequently Asked Questions
The course covers what the Online Safety Act 2023 sets out to achieve, describing it as a significant step forward in regulating electronic communications and what service providers owe the people who use their services.
It covers how the Act regulates electronic communications, giving learners a picture of the mechanisms the legislation uses to reshape provider obligations around user safety across different types of digital services. This explanation is framed around what providers owe the people who rely on their communication services.
Yes, the course covers the growing digital safety concerns behind the legislation, situating the Act as a response to specific problems rather than presenting it as regulation without any real-world context. This context helps learners understand the Act as a response to real problems rather than abstract rule-making.
The course covers the responsibilities service providers carry for protecting users under the Act, translating the legislation's requirements into obligations that fall directly on those running online services day to day. These obligations connect back to the broader goal the course describes for the Act, protecting users of electronic communications.
It is intended for teams in online services, compliance and digital policy who need a working understanding of this online safety regulation rather than a legal specialist's full level of technical detail. The course keeps its focus practical rather than exhaustively legal, suiting teams applying the Act day to day.