I made a point of emailing them about this (and suggest you do so too) - I'm not sure it is legal to prevent me from managing my data, despite living outside the UK. I understand they want to prevent foreign actors from misusing the service, but this is not it.

As if making it opt-out isn't bad enough, for some, they can't even opt-out. What a s*t show this entire process has been.

What's the betting that this data is being sold for 'research' to raise a few more pounds to combat the coming economic crash?