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I have seen very little - in fact, nothing - written about the imminent EU “eEvidence” framework from the perspective of UK telecoms operators and Internet service providers.

27 July - 7 August I can’t believe that I am having to do a blogpost on this again.

There has been a glut of new Internet Services Sanctions, making 94 in total now (from 37 in January).

The [Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 introduced into the Data Protection Act 2018 new requirements for handling data protection complaints.

A couple of people have asked me about some of the proposed amendments to the UK’s Crime and Policing Bill, which is currently going through Parliament.

The European Data Protection Board is consulting on a template data protection impact assessment, for processing subject to the EU GDPR.

In January 2025, Ofcom consulted on changes to the telecoms Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) rules.

One of the tests as to whether a user-to-user service is a “regulated” service, for the purposes of the Online Safety Act 2023, is whether the service has “links with the United Kingdom”.

2.5 years ago, I wrote about the Online Safety Act 2023’s (anti-)pornographic content provisions.

The UK’s law on storing information on someone’s terminal equipment, and accessing information stored in someone’s terminal equipment, has changed.

In December 2025, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union released its decision in the case of Russmedia.

There are currently 37 Internet services sanctions in place.

I can’t believe that I get to write this blogpost.

A beautiful watercolour image of a silver humanoid character on a keyboard surfboard, surfing on a wave of Matrix-style characters in the form of a wave (Art by the wonderful Jennie Gyllblad.)

Updated 2026-01-19: the amendment has been amended, to give the Secretary of State some discretion over which services are in scope: “regulated user-to-user services” shall have the meaning given to it in the Online Safety Act 2023, subject to any modific…