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Sep 23, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Mizy Clifton

    Pornhub investigated by UK’s online watchdog (opens the original)

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    LONDON — The U.K.'s online safety regulator Ofcom on Wednesday launched an investigation into PornHub's parent company Aylo over its reliance on Apple's device-based age checks to keep kids off its platform. Since July 2025, all sites and apps that allow pornography need to have age checks in place to prevent children accessing adult content under the U.K.'s Online Safety Act. PornHub blocked all unregistered U.K. users in February, complaining that the site had suffered a fall in traffic as vis

  2. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Mizy Clifton

    Andy Burnham has to shape the UK’s social media ban. Australia and France could show him how. (opens the original)

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    LONDON — As Britain’s children head back to school, its new prime minister needs to decide exactly how he wants to keep them off social media. Britain isn’t the only country crafting a social media ban for minors. Developments in Australia and France over the break should give Burnham’s ministers and officials plenty to think about. Australia’s ban is only having a limited effect on how much kids get on to social media, while France’s ban has hit a huge legal hurdle. In June, then-Prime Minister

  3. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Mizy Clifton

    Nigel Farage wants to scrap GDPR for the UK (opens the original)

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    LONDON — Reform UK on Tuesday night outlined plans to scrap the U.K.’s data protection regime as part of a broader package of measures designed to help small businesses. The U.K. decided to incorporate an amended version of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy laws into British law post-Brexit. Reform UK says it would replace the U.K. version of GDPR with a “light-touch” privacy law modeled on New Zealand’s approach to data protection. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said sma

  4. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Mizy Clifton

    Parents and politicians love social media bans for kids. Experts worry they’re a shot in the dark. (opens the original)

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    LONDON – It’s a muggy summer afternoon in London and more than two dozen academics and civil society experts, all interested in how digital technology affects children, have gathered in an airless basement lecture theatre to discuss a hot topic. The U.K. government’s statutory ban on smartphones in English schools only came into force the day before, so the launch of new research exploring how students experience these restrictions couldn’t be more timely. Experts like the ones assembled worry t

  5. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · Mizy Clifton

    Meet the married couple who helped make the UK social media ban a reality (opens the original)

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    Daisy Greenwell and Joe Ryrie were headed to Davos to talk about screen-free childhoods at the invitation of philanthropist Margarita Louis-Dreyfus when the dam broke. Rumors reached the married couple during their drive along the M25 motorway that Keir Starmer’s government — facing both a potential backbench rebellion and an embarrassing defeat in the Lords — was preparing to make a major online safety-related announcement. The husband and wife are the co-founders and directors of Smartphone Fr

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