Recommendation 13

As the regulator for online safety, Ofcom will need to monitor the compliance of over 100,000 service providers, who target the UK market or have a significant number of UK users, and that fall within the scope of the regulation. The majority of regulated service providers will be based overseas and will not have been regulated by Ofcom before. The largest and riskiest service providers will be subject to detailed, one-to-one supervision.22 Ofcom expects around 40 companies will be supervised in this way and it has established a supervision team for this purpose.23 It also said that it had information-gathering powers and would issue requests for information to service providers, co-ordinating these requests carefully to prioritise the information required and take account of the burden on providers.24