Pre-internet laws
we’re largely still operating under laws written pre-internet.
Gritting teeth and pretending that the internet is the web, and that it didn't really "exist" until BT were selling access to consumers,.. no, that statement's still not really true. The original Computer Misuse Act does date from 1990 but was amended in 1994,1998, 2006 and 2015. The current Data Protection Act dates from 1998 and it's successor is before Parliament right now.