PART 3Providers of regulated user-to-user services and regulated search services: duties of care
CHAPTER 3Providers of search services: duties of care
Duties about content reporting and complaints procedures
I1I231Duty about content reporting
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This section sets out the duty about content reporting which applies in relation to all regulated search services.
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A duty to operate a service using systems and processes that allow users and affected persons to easily report search content which they consider to be content of a kind specified below (with the duty extending to content that is harmful to children depending on the kind of service, as indicated by the headings).
3All services
Illegal content.
4Services likely to be accessed by children
Content that is harmful to children.
Interpretation
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In this section “affected person” means a person, other than a user of the service in question, who is in the United Kingdom and who is—
a
the subject of the content,
b
a member of a class or group of people with a certain characteristic targeted by the content,
c
a parent of, or other adult with responsibility for, a child who is a user of the service or is the subject of the content, or
d
an adult providing assistance in using the service to another adult who requires such assistance, where that other adult is a user of the service or is the subject of the content.
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See also, in relation to the duty set out in this section, section 33 (duties about freedom of expression and privacy).