[noir_lord]

If you route traffic and DNS to a DO droplet outside the UK, all the ISP sees is a connection to that droplet and how much data was sent, not anything about what it was that was sent.

It neatly circumvents this bullshit, some suspect doing so will put you on a list for a closer look but if your traffic is innocuous who cares, I'm more worried about my useless ISP leaking/losing such data than I am about state intelligence.

Just the existence of these databases held by ISP's built under lowest cost bids will make them a massive target.

[nixgeek]

Its likely you could even use DigitalOcean in London because they're likely not subject to this legislation as they don't provide *DSL-style services?

[noir_lord]

Possibly but I'd quite like to exit in another country sinces another layer of bureaucracy for them to deal with and not all countries have equal policies in terms of privacy.