Could the UK government really ban VPNs?

As we’ve been reporting over the past week interest in VPN use in the UK has spiked following concerns about the Online Safety Act and its age verification rules. Inevitably the government has noticed the surge in VPN use and while it insists it has no plans to ban their use the science secretary, Peter Kyle, says it will be looking “very closely” at how they’re being employed. VPNs of course have perfectly legitimate uses. Their ability to create a secure ‘tunnel’ through the internet between two locations -- masking your IP address and encrypting data transmitted to and from… [Continue Reading]