Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how (www.techradar.com)
from schizoidman@lemmy.zip to privacy@lemmy.ml on 12 Nov 03:40
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The UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, has told TechRadar that it’s using an unnamed third-party tool to monitor VPN use in the UK.

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ISOmorph@feddit.org on 12 Nov 05:18 collapse

Baroness Lloyd, said in the UK House of Lords that “nothing is off the table” when it comes to protecting children online, though she acknowledged there are “no current plans to ban the use of VPNs”.

So there are plans to ban the use of VPNs

NarrativeBear@lemmy.world on 12 Nov 05:45 collapse

But how do you ban VPN’s? Like am I not going to be able to remote into work or the office? Or will I now not be able to connect into my own private VPN that I run at home.

grey_maniac@lemmy.ca on 12 Nov 06:14 next collapse

That’s one way to get rid of remote work.

hanrahan@piefed.social on 12 Nov 06:53 collapse

Yea and yes, are you a paedophile ? Think of the children! /s