The inquiry was announced following several data breaches reported by age- and identity-verification vendors. And in a first, lawmakers are asking whether the compliance mechanism they adopted is the problem, not the enforcement pace by digital regulator Ofcom. Ofcom released its first annual report on age verification usage and adoption earlier this summer. According to Keeley, the Online Safety Act was adopted to bring forward groundbreaking online safety regulations in the United Kingdom's digital space. Baroness Keeley explained, "It is now clear that the Act is not working as well as it should.