The European Union is exploring ways to combat the use of VPNs in bypassing age assurance regulations on accessing the internet, with the European Parliamentary Research Service highlighting the escape route provided by VPNs.
meant to verify the age and identity of citizens accessing the internet as part of an effort to keep underage users off social media. Turns out there’s a slight crack in that otherwise fool-proof approach to verification: VPNs.
Now it appears the bloc of nations wants to patch up that hole.that the European Parliamentary Research Service, part of the European Parliament, has issued a warning about virtual private networks, which allow users to bypass age assurance requirements by spoofing their location to be outside of the EU. In aThe EPRS doesn’t have a solution for the problem that VPNs offer users a workaround for age verification laws, though it does recognize that one proposed option would be to make VPNs only accessible to users who are verified to be over the age of 18—an approach that the Children’s Commissioner for England has Instead, the agency mostly acknowledges that VPNs are a real thorn in its side.
It observed that VPN usage has significantly increased in places that have enacted age-verification requirements. One VPN provider, Proton VPN,to anyone under the age of 18. Basically, when age-verification laws go into effect, people flock to the most well-known tool for dodging them.that’s designed to discourage the use of VPNs by declaring that a person is considered to be accessing a website from Utah if they are physically located in the state, and would therefore be subject to age-verification requirements.
There are significant questions as to how enforceable that law will be. In Wisconsin, anIt certainly seems that lawmakers are aware that VPNs have become a reliable tool for bypassing their attempts at age-gating the internet. It seems likely that more governing bodies will look for ways to restrict access to the privacy tool in the near future.
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