PART 4Other duties of providers of regulated user-to-user services and regulated search services

CHAPTER 1User identity verification

I1I265OFCOM’s guidance about user identity verification

1

OFCOM must produce guidance for providers of Category 1 services to assist them in complying with the duty set out in section 64(1).

2

In producing the guidance (including revised or replacement guidance), OFCOM must have particular regard to the desirability of ensuring that providers of Category 1 services offer users a form of identity verification likely to be available to vulnerable adult users.

3

Before producing the guidance (including revised or replacement guidance), OFCOM must consult—

a

the Information Commissioner,

b

persons whom OFCOM consider to have technological expertise relevant to the duty set out in section 64(1),

c

persons who appear to OFCOM to represent the interests of vulnerable adult users of Category 1 services, and

d

such other persons as OFCOM consider appropriate.

4

OFCOM must publish the guidance (and any revised or replacement guidance).