Upcoming powers in legislation regulating online spaces will force Big Tech companies to give bereaved parents as well as coroners the content of their dead children’s accounts, according to the UK government.
The government wants to add an amendment to the Online Safety Bill which will help to access information held by tech companies that could help identify a child’s cause of death.
Under the new law, bosses who refuse to hand over the data could face up to a year in jail and fines of up to 10 percent of their companies’ global turnover.
The law is inspired by Bereaved Families for Online Safety, a group started by a group of parents including those of Molly Russell. In November 2017, Russell, whose father said she showed no obvious signs of mental illness before, took her own life, after viewing online content related to depression and self-harm for months….