Whilst Clean Up The Internet remains agnostic on the need for mandatory Government ID, there are clear potential synergies between the BritCard and social media identity verification. But for them to be realised the details need to be got right.

Action on fake and anonymous accounts should be seen as an acid-test as to whether Ofcom is going to do its bit to deliver the government’s crime reduction ambitions.

Any watering down the UK’s recently enacted online safety laws has the potential to be very expensive indeed.

Clean Up The Internet submitted evidence to the UK Parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, which is conducting an...