It's now been five years since the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the European Union, and six months since it actually left.

The regulator is planning to determine whether the UK’s net neutrality framework, passed in 2015 under the EU’s Open Internet Regulation, needs to be adjusted to the current environment.

JAMES BALL examines the areas where Britain is now feeling the painful consequences of its departure from the EU.

Salesforce is extending its Hyperforce data sovereignty offering to the European Union (EU), but Brexit Britain won’t be part of the program until next year despite being the firm’s second largest market outside of the US.

The government is proposing to remove EU-era regulatory protections that enable people to challenge the decisions algorithms make about them.

OSI welcomes the Decision of the European Commission on the open source licensing and reuse of Commission software. The December 8 Decision means that Commission services may choose to make Commission software available under open source licenses, something OSI has long advocated and which opens great opportunities both for individuals and companies.

Developers and publishers discuss the challenges they face in securing talent from the Continent

Diversity efforts across the UK’s tech industry were significantly derailed by the fallout of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research by Tech London Advocates (TLA).

Why on earth is our government refusing to adopt what appears to be the most sensible piece of EU law I’ve heard of in a long time?

Chief exec of BT’s Openreach has said the UK’s ability to roll out superfast broadband has become increasingly difficult because of “tortuous” recruitment hurdles as a result of Brexit.

The technology field will be hurt by the Data Bill and the breakdown of Horizon.

Hermann Houser says Britain has no chance of being technologically independent after leaving the EU.

Supply chain issues, skills shortages, increased costs and red tape among the issues cited.

Brexit is having a negative impact on business, according to almost half of UK IT leaders questioned in a Computing Delta study.

The UK government has launched a scaleup visa for businesses to sponsor high-skill tech workers for a two-year stay to encourage more talent into the country and plug the digital skills gap.

Not evident in the statement is the inconvenient fact that diverging too far from the EU’s data protection regime — the General Data Protection Directive — could have consequences for UK businesses which regularly share data with units based in the EU or its economic area.

An analysis of the total cost to U.K. businesses if the country fails to gain an adequacy agreement from the European Commission once it leaves the bloc at the end of the year — creating barriers to inbound data flows from the EU — suggests the price in pure compliance terms could be between £1 billion and £1.6 billion.

UK government to ditch GDPR in favour of post-Brexit system in potential headache for industry DCMS head Michelle Donelan promises to do away with red tape as Labour MP labels move “madness” .

The announcement this week by culture secretary Michelle Donelan that the UK plans to replace GDPR with its own “business and consumer-friendly British data protection system” is bad news.

It’s striking how similar the ongoing national embarrassment is to screwing up software.

Warm weather, fast internet and a specially designed visa are just some of the incentives Spanish authorities are hoping will attract Britons to return after being blocked by Brexit restrictions.

This site tracks updates and developments on the UK’s implementation or adaptation of specific European policies, regulations, and laws impacting the digital and tech industries throughout the Brexit transition.

Ofcom is looking for public responses to a report which suggests eroding net neutrality by allowing ISPs to provide more premium services. Responses can be made up to January 13th.

Ofcom, the UK regulator, is going to give the UK’s net neutrality regs a once-over - presumably in response to telco and ISP urgings on the subject of “Now we’re not in the EU we shouldn’t have to obey EU laws.” Always a favourite. / In fact UK voices were at the forefront of the original discussion - urging pro network neutrality measures on the EU back in the mid noughties.

This article examines the relationship between zero-rating and net neutrality in light of the latest case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, namely the Vodafone case (Case C-854/19). The aim is to determine whether the UK should follow the EU’s example in banning zero-rating practices as seen in Vodafone.