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The best publicly reported figures indicate UK police made roughly 12,000 arrests a year for “offensive” online communications (about “more than 30 arrests a day”) based on custody data compiled by Th...
Available sources show arrests for offensive online communications in England have been reported at roughly 12,000 per year (about 30 arrests per day reported by The Times for 2023), while prosecution...
Police custody data obtained and analysed by The Times and cited across parliamentary and civil-liberties reporting indicate roughly 12,000 arrests a year in recent years for communications or “online...
Available public reporting and police FOI work does not produce a single, centrally published figure for convictions in 2024 arising from arrests under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and s...
Available reporting identifies roughly 12,000 arrests in the UK in 2023 for offences recorded under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 — ...
Reporting based on collated by and summarised in parliamentary and NGO sources shows 12,183 arrests under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1...
In 2024 the available reporting shows large numbers of arrests for online communications offences but provides only scattered, case-based evidence about who was imprisoned; official datasets are incom...
Arrests directly attributable to "chat control" or chat-scanning policies in the UK are not clearly enumerated in public data, and existing reporting links broader increases in online-communications a...