Michael J. BurgessUK officials are now openly consulting on age-restricting children's VPN use, even while government text says lawful adult VPN use should not be restricted and VPNs remain legal. The NCSC also describes VPNs as a normal secure infrastructure for organisations. And the poll being pushed around asked about banning VPNs for under-18s, not everyone, with 25% saying "don't know".
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This is how mission creep happens: more ID checks, more third-party data collection, less privacy.
Are we protecting children, or teaching people to treat privacy tools as suspicious?