{"id":1021720,"date":"2026-07-17T08:58:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021720"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:46:26","slug":"uk-opens-probe-into-tiktoks-child-safety-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/17\/uk-opens-probe-into-tiktoks-child-safety-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"UK opens probe into TikTok&#8217;s child safety measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Britain&#8217;s communications regulator on Thursday launched an investigation into whether social media platform TikTok is doing enough under UK law to protect children from harmful content. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This investigation will seek to establish whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that TikTok has failed, or is failing, to comply with its legal obligations,&#8221; Ofcom said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>It added that it would in particular look at TikTok&#8217;s age verification model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Britain&#8217;s communications regulator on Thursday launched an investigation into whether social media platform TikTok is doing enough under UK law to protect children from harmful content. &#8220;This investigation will seek to establish whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that TikTok has failed, or is failing, to comply with its legal obligations,&#8221; Ofcom said in a statement. It added that it would in particular look at TikTok&#8217;s age verification model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021732,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021720\/revisions\/1021732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}