Under the rules of the UK's Online Safety Act, websites with adult or sensitive content operating in the UK must now take comprehensive steps to verify the ages of their users. It's a law that has ...

Social media platforms and other online services operating in the UK are facing new regulations. Ofcom, the UK's communication services regulator, has released over 40 safety measures that applicable ...

With the UK slowly emerging from lockdown, the time that millions of people have spent at home working and being educated has led to record levels of internet use and huge changes in the way people ...

Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, has published its annual Connected Nations report, and as always it makes for interesting reading. Most notably, 37 percent of rural premises (about 1.1 ...

The average worker at a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) in the UK could be wasting 72 minutes a day – the equivalent of two and a half working weeks a year – because of connectivity and ...

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has published a new joint report and stat-fest on Internet attitudes and usage with the national data protection watchdog, the ICO — a quantitative study to be published ...

Enforcement of a first-of-its-kind United Kingdom law that Elon Musk wants Donald Trump to gut kicked in today, with potentially huge penalties possibly imminent for any Big Tech companies deemed ...

There are over 12 million domains registered in the .UK namespace, demonstrating the enduring demand for domain names that are trusted and that can communicate a website’s British credentials to ...

The UK government is quietly expanding and developing a controversial surveillance technology that could be capable of logging and storing the web histories of millions of people. Official reports and ...

The UK's plan to stick all online pornography behind age-verification barriers has turned into a mess. Yesterday, culture secretary Jeremy Wright delayed the launch of the new regime for at least six ...

The UK is echoing others in lifting internet restrictions to keep people online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Major telecoms like BT/EE, Openreach and Virgin Media have struck an agreement that will ...