"The road to online hell is paved with good intentions," said Melisa Tourt in The Critic – as we're discovering, now that the ...

COMMENT: The government’s new bill is hopeless, writes . We do need protections for children, so don’t repeal it – rewrite it ...

Apps that disguise a user’s location have surged in popularity after the UK introduced age-verification rules as part of its ...

Marc Andreessen, one of the world’s most powerful venture capitalists, has complained to Downing Street about the UK’s Online ...

Age verification is needed but government, rather than tech companies, should be responsible for developing tools ...

We explain how to sidestep age verification on websites in the UK. Use this simple trick to avoid age check on adult sites in ...

The UK’s Online Safety Act, which came into force on 25th July, was conceived with the noble aim of protecting children from ...

Reports claim that VPN usage has surged in the UK after the introduction of the Online Safety Act 2025 on July 25 ...

VPNs are highly unlikely to be made illegal in the UK any time soon, regardless of the amount of handwringing over moves to ...

And so could it be with the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA) and its accompanying age verification process which came into being ...

In light of the Online Safety Act, people in the UK are opting for VPNs over proxies, but this might not be the wisest or ...

An honourable attempt to protect children online has backfired after the Online Safety Act put up barriers to adults wanting ...