About Grab The Data

Grab The Data publishes plain-English explainers built on public data. We take the reports, registers, statistics and official rules that shape everyday decisions and explain what they actually say: what the numbers show, where they come from and where they stop.

We focus on two beats:

• Technology and online safety: security, privacy, AI and the devices people rely on.
• The online gambling industry: regulation, licensing, market data and player protection, covered as an industry rather than promoted as a product.

How we work

We start from sources. Every article is built on primary material wherever it exists: regulators, official statistics, standards bodies, court and legislative documents, and published research. Each article lists its sources at the end.

We show the numbers. Where data tells the story, we chart it, note the sample size and date, and offer a table view so the figures can be checked.

We say what we don’t know. When sources disagree, a figure is an estimate, or the data comes from a party with an interest in the result, we say so in the article.

We date everything. Articles show when they were published and when they were last updated. Rules and numbers change, and we update articles when they do.

We don’t sell coverage. Our editorial articles are not paid placements, and we don’t accept payment for links or mentions in them.

Our archive

This site has been publishing since 2017. Its archive includes many older articles written by outside contributors. We’re reviewing that archive: articles that people still rely on are being rewritten to our current standards, and those marked “Updated” have been. Older contributed material that doesn’t meet those standards is being retired from search.

Corrections

If you spot an error, we want to fix it. Corrections are made in the article itself and reflected in its “Updated” date.