The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that VPNs are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems.
  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
    22·
    7 days ago

    The end of this road is requiring a digital ID that signs all of your packets so all traffic can be classified and linked to an individual.

    It’s not about age verification, this is just the “THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!” step, VPNs are the biggest threat after that, but anything that enables anonymity will be a target.

    We’ll eventually get to the national security excuses or some digital equivalent of 9/11 will provide the excuse for a neo-PATRIOT act, ending digital anonymity (just give up a bit of liberty for security, no big deal!).

  • jdnewmil@lemmy.ca
    9·
    7 days ago

    So stupid. My employer’s laptops given to every employee are pre-configured to vpn back to the company network. What part of “private communication” says this use case should be in any way distinguishable from some teen cruising porn sites?

    • naeap@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      7 days ago

      Same here
      Wouldn’t be able to do my work with VPNs to access customer networks and the machines there

      Politicians talking shit about something they don’t understand as always
      Just trying to get the masses on their side with the “think of the children” and “porn == bad” argument, using the publicly barely understood abbreviation VPN

      Fucking assholes - as sadly, they aren’t idiots that don’t know what they’re doing