By Emmanuel Oluebube, Senior Correspondent, UK
Ofcom has fined Tapnet Ltd – which provides the video-sharing platform (VSP) RevealMe – £2,000(US$2465.65) after the company did not respond to a statutory request for information.
Under legislation passed by Parliament, Ofcom’s job is to make sure that UK-based VSPs have appropriate measures in place to protect users from certain types of harmful material in videos. Last year, the UK TMT sector regulator issued a number of information requests to VSPs to help it understand and monitor the safety measures it has in place and to inform the VSP report it published in October.
VSPs are required by law to comply with a statutory demand for information from Ofcom. Information gathered during this process is fundamental in enabling the regulator carry out its job . It is therefore crucial that VSPs provide accurate and complete information in a timely fashion.
Tapnet did not provide a response to Ofcom’s information request by the specified deadline, and following a formal investigation, it found that the company had breached its rules.
Ofcom will publish a non-confidential version of its full decision in the next few weeks.
