Deposited Paper DEP2023-0709

Letter dated 29/06/2023 from Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay to All Peers regarding issues raised during the Committee stage (eighth, ninth, and tenth days) of the Online Safety Bill: where the outcomes of the child safety duties are set out in the Bill, the use of copyright and contract law when dealing with images wrongly used on pornographic sites, Ofcom’s annual transparency reports, the ‘scope’ of terms of service in the transparency reporting requirements, Section 110 Notices, coroners and training on social media, business disruption measures against out-of-scope services, ensuring researchers can safely receive and use data, VPNs, the interaction of Clause 162 with the illegal content duty, non-regulated services outside the UK's jurisdiction that promote self-harm content, prosecutions under the Suicide Act, people who create algorithms that disseminate content that meets the threshold in the self-harm offence. Incl. annex.