The OSA 2023 creates a new regulatory regime, overseen by OFCOM, imposing various duties on the providers of certain internet services, to include ‘user-to-user services’ and ‘search services’.
	Section 162 OSA 2023 requires OFCOM to prepare a report, which must be published by July 2025, that will describe how, and to what extent, persons carrying out independent research into online safety matters are currently able to obtain information from providers of regulated services to inform their research. It will also explore the legal and other issues which currently constrain the sharing of information with researchers and will assess the extent to which greater access to information for such purposes might be achieved.
Information for research about online safety matters