1 In my last blog post, I commented on the UK government's current proposals to impose obligations on a hugely broad range of online actors, thanks to the proposals' extra-territorial scope. This Read more
1 Do you provide Internet access services to consumers? Are you worried about consumers asking you to provide the service before the end of the statutory cancellation period, only to then cancel, Read more
1 CW/TW: unsolicited sexual images The Law Commission has published proposals to better protect victims from harmful online behaviour including abusive messages or emails, cyberflashing, and pile-on Read more
1 The European Commission has published a proposal for a regulation which, if passed, would provide a time-limited and very constrained exemption to the rules set out in the ePrivacy framework, which Read more
1 If you are reading this, you're probably already having a bad day. This blogpost won't make it better, but hopefully it will make things clearer. As always, if you need a hand, please do get in Read more
A couple of weeks ago, Alex Bloor and I gave a talk to the Society for Computers and Law, called "Demystifying 'The Dark Net'". As with the "basics of tech" sessions that we have done before, the aim Read more
1 BEREC has issued updated guidelines on Articles 3 and 4 of the Open Internet regulation (Regulation 2015/2120) — what most people will call the "net neutrality" guidelines. I know, it's like Read more
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You might recall that the Digital Economy Act 2017 contains measures which, if brought into effect, would prohibit porn sites from making content available to people in the UK, unless they have Read more
This is probably one of the geekier posts on the blog... I'm writing it because of the rather well-publicised Virgin Media outages earlier this week, which were promptly followed by some customers Read more
This blogpost looks at legal issues associated with making your web site or other online service available within Tor as an onion service. Tor, and onion services: a very quick primer If you are Read more