James BakerJan 1, 2023
The legal but harmful part of the online safety bill hasn’t been dropped for children. So the only way Labour could toughen the bull is either reintroducing the clause for adults, or more worrying regulating VPNS as they tried to start doing with one of their amendments to the bill https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/01/labour-pledges-toughen-online-safety-bill #onlinesafetybill #privacy
Labour pledges to toughen ‘weakened and gutted’ online safety bill

Shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell vows to target algorithms that bombard children with harmful content if party wins power

The Guardian
Show threadTom StonehamJan 1, 2023

@JamesBaker
We need to normalise use of #e2ee #vpn and #PrivateRelay as much as possible.

Here we can be helped by Big Tech, since WhatsApp is doing a great job of normalising #e2ee and Apple #PrivateRelay. But no Big Tech has an interest in VPNs.

Can we get the story of ProtonVPN vs Putin into the media?

Show threadAlexi Charles
@tomstoneham agree. Isn’t AppleRelay an early step into VPN? In the addition the new e2ee Apple seems promising? Of course, how do you trust big tech with an end point VPN?
Jan 1, 2023 at 12:47pmWeb
Show threadTom StonehamJan 1, 2023

@alexicharles As I understand it, in terms of privacy, Apple's private relay is superior to a VPN since there is no one log which connects your IP to the site you are accessing. That means you don't have to trust them in the same way you have to trust a VPN provider not to log all traffic in an insecure way. I.e. it is designed to be trustless.

But it doesn't appear to be global in iOS, so a VPN from a highly trusted provider like Proton may still be better.

Show threadAlexi CharlesJan 1, 2023

@tomstoneham I think Apples private relay only works with Safari right now, not Firefox etc. Non browser traffic is also not included? … Depends on user needs I guess.

Proton has two hop on their premium plans and works for most if not all internet traffic. I use both (or nothing) depending on what I am doing at the time. I don’t trust either (or other VPNs) for complete privacy or being anonymous.