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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Is the Bill future-proof? If you think it is not, how can we ensure that it is responsive to future risks and harms? Andy Burrows: The systemic regime is important. That will…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Do you think it should be signed off at a senior level—board level—in your organisation? Katy Minshall: Already all the biggest decisions that we make as a company are signed…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Does the Bill differentiate enough between services that have different business models? If not, what do you think are the consequences of the lack of differentiation, and where…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q I am not talking here about general figures for what you have removed. I am talking about giving real access to the data on the risks of harm and the measures to mitigate harm.…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Just quickly, do coroners have sufficient powers? Should they have more powers to access digital data after the death of a child? Andy Burrows: We can see what a protracted…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q And do you think the Bill differentiates enough? If not, what more could be done in it? Jared Sine: We are very encouraged by the Bill. We think it allows for different codes of…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q That was to be my next question: do you think it is an issue that category 1 services will not have to publish child risk assessments? It seems to me that it would be better if…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Okay. At what level in the organisation do you anticipate children’s risk assessment would be signed off? Clearly, this is a very important aspect of the Bill. Katy Minshall: I…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Do any other panellists want to add to that? Janaya Walker: Just to draw together the questions about pornography and the question you asked about children, I wanted to highlight…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q I want to ask about the many tragic cases of teenagers who have died by suicide after viewing self-harm material online. Do you think coroners have sufficient powers to access…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q I think the TikTok example was looking at materials and videos and seeing whether they mention school or birthdays as a way of verifying age. As you say, that does involve…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Jared Sine, did you have anything to add? Jared Sine: Sure. I would add a couple of thoughts. We run our own age verification scans, which we do through the traditional age gate…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q TikTok were talking to us earlier about their age verification. If companies do it themselves rather than it being a third party, where does that fall down? Dr Rachel O'Connell:…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q I was not just asking about Ofcom; I was wanting to go further than that and have wider access. Katie O'Donovan: I do not want to gloss over the Ofcom point; I want to dwell on…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)No, I am not just asking about the Bill. Will you do that? Richard Earley: We have not seen the Ofcom guidance on what those risk assessments should contain yet, so it is not…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Just to follow up on a couple of things, mainly with Susie Hargreaves. You mentioned reporting mechanisms and said that reporting will be a step forward. However, the Joint…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q It would be good to have that goal. Can I come to you, Katie O’Donovan? Katie O'Donovan: To begin with, I would pick up on the importance of transparency. We at Google and…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q I have a really simple question. You have touched on the balance between free speech rights and the rights of people who are experiencing harassment, but does the Bill do enough…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Just to be clear, is there uncertainty somewhere in there? I am just trying to comprehend. Susie Hargreaves: There is uncertainty, because we do not know exactly what our…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you. Can I ask for a bit more detail on a question that you touched on earlier with my colleague Kirsty Blackman? It is to Professor McGlynn, really. I think you included…24 May 2022