The Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) was formed in July 2020 and it brings together the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Office of Communications (Ofcom) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Building on the strong working relationships among these organisations, the DRCF has been established to ensure a greater level of cooperation, given the unique challenges posed by regulation of online platforms and digital services.
Online services are playing an ever-more central role in our lives, and the digital landscape is developing at pace. There is a need for a more coherent, coordinated and clear regulatory approach – for the good of internet users and the companies who serve them.
The DRCF has published its working priorities for the next twelve months. The ICO plays an instrumental part alongside its regulatory partners in delivering these priorities.
In April 2024, the DRCF launched the AI and Digital Hub for a 12 month pilot. This is a new informal advice service to support innovators with complex regulatory questions that cross more than one DRCF regulator’s remit.
For more information about the DRCF and the AI and Digital Hub, see the DRCF website, or contact [email protected]’.
News and updates
- April 2024 – DRCF AI and Digital Hub Launch
- April 2024 – The DRCF publishes its 2024/25 Workplan
- April 2024 – The DRCF publishes its 2023/24 Annual Report
- April 2024 – The DRCF publishes a response to the 2023 Call for Input
- April 2024 – DRCF Blog on Fairness in AI
- February 2024 – Harmful Digital Design Workshop Insights
- February 2024 – DRCF AI and Digital Hub update
- September 2023 – DRCF Blog on Building Capabilities to assess Algorithmic Systems
- July 2023 – DRCF Blog on Maximising the Benefits of Generative AI for the Digital Economy
- April 2023 – The DRCF responds to the Secretary of State for Digital, Science, Industry and Technology (DSIT)
- April 2023 – The DRCF publishes its 2023/24 Workplan
- April 2023 – The DRCF publishes its 2022/23 Annual Report
- April 2023 – DRCF Blog on Quantum technologies
- April 2023 - Kate Jones appointed new head of Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum
- November 2022 - DRCF Blog on Web 3.0 and distributed ledger technologies
- October 2022 - Families’ attitudes towards age assurance: research commissioned by the ICO and Ofcom
- June 2022 – DRCF Blog on the Metaverse and immersive technologies
- April 2022 - UK’s digital watchdogs take a closer look at algorithms as plans set out for year ahead
- March 2022 - Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) launches digital research portal with a blog from DRCF CEO Gill Whitehead
Documents
- May 2024 - DRCF Ofcom and ICO Joint Statement
- Launched April 2024 - DRCF AI and Digital Hub
- December 2023 - DRCF Immersive Technologies Foresight Paper
- October 2023 - DRCF Multi-agency Advice Service Final Report
- August 2023 - DRCF Age Assurance Report: Measurement of Age Assurance Technologies
- August 2023 - DRCF ICO and CMA joint paper on Harmful Design in Digital Markets
- August 2023 - DRCF Quantum Technologies Insights Paper
- July 2023 - DRCF Response to AI White Paper
- May 2023 - DRCF Algorithmic Processing discussion papers
- April 2023 - DRCF Letter to Secretary of State for DSIT
- March 2023 - DRCF Transparency in the procurement of algorithmic systems: Findings from our workshops
- February 2023 - DRCF Insight Paper on Web3
- November 2022 - DRCF Ofcom and ICO Joint Statement on Online Safety and Data Protection
- October 2022 - DRCF Algorithmic Processing workstream: Response to Call for Input Submissions
- October 2022 - DRCF Families’ attitudes towards age assurance research
- July 2022 - DRCF Roundtable on End to End Encryption summary
- July 2022 - DRCF CMA and Ofcom Joint Statement on Online Safety and Competition
- May 2021 - DRCF CMA and ICO Joint Statement on Competition and Data Protection in Digital Markets
- Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum digital research portal
- Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum: Annual report 2021 to 2022
- Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum: Plan of work for 2022 to 2023
- Spring 2022 - Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum: Findings from the DRCF Algorithmic Processing workstream