Category: Online Safety

Building on previous legislation such as the Online Safety Act 2023 and the Children’s Well Being and Schools Act 2026, the heavily trailed social media ban has now been officially announced. The timeline is that the plan is to bring everything to Parliament before Christmas 2026 and come into force in Spring 2027. The restrictions […]

Ofcom has taken an unusual step in that it has written to online service providers who operate in the UK about the increased risk of their services being used to stir up hatred and promote violence. This is specifically regarding civil unrest in Belfast. This is not the first time that Ofcom have taken the […]

A TalkTalk study looking at how we all use our mobile phones suggests that many of us will pick up our phones to fill in gaps of just 30 seconds, and that the total average screen time per day may be 3 hours and 18 minutes a day. This is double the screen time of […]

A company that runs four pornography websites has been fined £500,000 for its failure to implement highly effective age assurance measures on UK visitors by Ofcom. Additionally for failing to respond to statutory requests a further fine of £100,000 has been levied. The Online Safety Act 2023 gives Ofcom powers to levy fines on companies […]

An online suicide forum that is apparently still accessible from a standard UK IP address has landed itself with a £950,000 fine and further action will be taken unless the site comes into complicance with UK law in the next two weeks. The fine is from investigations carried out between March 2025 and March 2026 […]

The press release was somewhat thin on the detail, but it is now confirmed that the Cyber Threat Protection BT is offering to all broadband customers is powered by Norton. So what does this switch from vulnerable to BT Protected offer: Looking at the Norton site to see what the value of this is, it […]

As BT is set to launch new branding on 8th May 2026 with a Behind Brilliant Things showcasing how critical BT is to many parts of daily life. The branding launch was part of a press conference where BT CEO Allison Kirkby announced that BT has been appointed the Official Telecommunications Partner of UEFA EURO […]

Recently a new user on the forums posted something we wanted to briefly analyse and warn users about as it raises another scam tactic which you could become a victim of. The Ask We’ve deleted the post to avoid users unwittingly falling for this, however we’re reproducing the post in full glory on this news […]

We have warned users about scams for quite some time (see our Online Scams guide for a lot more on this) as these are becoming quite common. In the latest episode of BBC Scam Interceptors, the programme exposes a scam with a fake refund from Sky Broadband, but the issue being highlighted is one that […]

Research carried out by Virgin Media O2 has found that millions of people are likely to have seen fake customer service numbers using search engines and AI tools. It has also dealt with customers who have suffered fraud through contacting scam numbers. Scammers exploiting algorithms to place themselves above legitimate websites on search results is […]