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).