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Ofcom has a live consultation on its draft guidance. In this it recommends that platforms should be clear: that they will acknowledge a request; who will communicate with parents; what the next steps are if the information provided by parents is incomplete or unclear; what internal steps they will take; what the timeline will be for providing a response; and what other evidence might be acceptable if the parent does not have an official ID document. It also recommends that platforms should provide detail on what information they will never disclose and explain whether special software will be needed to access any disclosed information, whether they provide that software and how any information would be delivered. It will not surprise your Lordships that not a single one of those things was clear on the Facebook website when I went to look. I did not have time to check any others.