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☆ Royal Mail is on the brink. Cutting letter deliveries to 3 days a week could save it
  + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Anna Cooban | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
London CNN —Royal Mail could ditch its near-daily deliveries of letters as the centuries-old British institution attempts to modernize its service and plug a growing hole in its finances. Ofcom, the UK regulator overseeing the postal service, published proposals to rescue the beleaguered company Wednesday. It said Royal Mail could save as much as £650 million ($828 million) a year if it cut letter deliveries to three days a week from the current six. The number of letters sent via the Royal Mail network had halved since 2011, and financial losses have ballooned. Among its other proposals, Ofcom suggested that Royal Mail could save up to £200 million ($255 million) a year by cutting its letter deliveries down to five days a week, or by extending the time it takes to get mail to customers.
Persons: “ Something’s, ” Melanie Dawes, Kevin Hollinrake, Martin Seidenberg Organizations: London CNN — Royal, Ofcom, Royal Mail, BBC, United, Services, CNN, Royal, International Distribution Services Locations: ”
☆ AI could judge if user is of porn-watching age under new UK guidance
  + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters are placed on computer motherboard in this illustration taken, June 23, 2023. The legal age to watch porn in Britain is 18 or over. The regulator described its suggestion on facial age estimation as using AI to analyse a viewer's features. The watchdog said its proposed guidance also included photo identification matching, requiring a user to upload a photo ID such as passport or driving licence to prove their age, and credit chard checks. The regulator said weaker methods such as self-declaration of age, online payment methods that do not require a person to be 18, and disclaimers or warnings, would no longer meet the standards in its new guidance.
Persons: Dado Ruvic, Melanie Dawes, chard, Muvija, Paul Sandle, Richard Chang Organizations: REUTERS, England, of Economic Affairs, Ofcom, Thomson Locations: Britain
☆ AI Could Judge if User Is of Porn-Watching Age Under New UK Guidance
  + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Dec. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +2 min
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain proposed new age-check guidance on Tuesday to protect children from accessing pornography online, including a suggestion to use AI-based technology to see if a viewer looks to be of legal age. The legal age to watch porn in Britain is 18 or over. The regulator described its suggestion on facial age estimation as using AI to analyse a viewer's features. The watchdog said its proposed guidance also included photo identification matching, requiring a user to upload a photo ID such as passport or driving licence to prove their age, and credit chard checks. The regulator said weaker methods such as self-declaration of age, online payment methods that do not require a person to be 18, and disclaimers or warnings, would no longer meet the standards in its new guidance.
Persons: Melanie Dawes, chard, Muvija, Paul Sandle, Richard Chang Organizations: England, of Economic Affairs, Ofcom Locations: Britain
☆ UK focuses on child safety at the start of new online regime
  + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Facebook's new rebrand logo Meta is seen on smartphone in front of displayed logo of Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Whatsapp and Oculus in this illustration picture taken October 28, 2021. Ofcom, which gained new powers when the Online Safety Act came into law last month, said children were a key priority. It said its role would be to force firms, such as Facebook and Instagram owner Meta (META.O), to tackle the causes of online harm by making their services safer. Chief Executive Melanie Dawes said Ofcom was wasting no time in setting out how it expected tech firms to protect people from illegal harm online. "Children have told us about the dangers they face, and we're determined to create a safer life online for young people in particular," she said.
Persons: Dado Ruvic, Melanie Dawes, we're, Paul Sandle, Mark Potter Organizations: Facebook, REUTERS, Ofcom, Meta, Thomson
☆ UK's Ofcom delays BT fibre pricing decision after CEO remarks
  + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Paul Sandle | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Rivals such as Virgin Media O2 and alternative fibre providers known as altnets are investing billions of pounds to build competing networks. 'SIGNIFICANT CONCERN'But comments made by BT Chief Executive Philip Jansen to the Financial Times - headlined "BT chief warns Openreach fibre push will 'end in tears' for rivals" - caused "significant concern", Ofcom said. Ofcom chief Melanie Dawes said in a letter to Jansen, published on Friday, that the regulator was committed to network competition. "They must question why BT Group is reducing its wholesale charges whilst increasing the prices that consumers pay for broadband," INCA said. BT's earlier wholesale pricing, Equinox, was challenged by altnet CityFibre, but Ofcom decided not to intervene.
☆ Meta and Microsoft can't self-regulate their metaverses, UK regulator warns
  + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
An avatar of Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., speaks during the virtual Meta Connect event in New York, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. The boss of the U.K. media regulator Ofcom warned "metaverse" forays from tech giants like Meta and Microsoft will be subjected to incoming rules forcing platforms to protect users from online harms. "I'm not sure I really see that 'self-regulatory phase,' to be honest, existing from a U.K. perspective," Dawes said. "If you've got young people in an environment where there's user-generated content according to the scope of the bill then that will already be caught by the Online Safety Bill." The Online Safety Bill is a set of legislation that seeks to curb harmful content from being widely shared on the internet.
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