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UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill (www.birminghammail.co.uk)
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Prominent backbench MP Sarah Champion launched a campaign against VPNs previously, saying: “My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.

"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.” And the Labour Party said there were “gaps” in the bill that needed to be amended.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 month ago

Enterprises will love that. A perfect excuse to end wfh. However, this will cripple business travelers. I'm sure there'll be some exception for corporations where they can exercise maximum control over their employees while still being allowed to generate capital.

Hey UK: suck it.

[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

They couldn't switch off VPNs for businesses. I work in a hospital and we use VPNs to create secure tunnels to other third party health care companies as well as NHS adjacent health services amongst other things. This is to protect patient sensitive data amongst other things. This would cripple our service and go against NHS england and government requirements for the secure transfer and sharing of data.

This would have to be public VPNs only. Despite the fact that it would be complete bullshit either way.

[-] atticus88th@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ive got a few UK coworkers that will be out of the job if anything disables VPNs. They voted for that mess now they can sleep in their 1/3 salary local jobs too.

[-] gaiussabinus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

A VPN is just a proxy. I don't see how this would be enforced.

[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

An encrypted proxy. Thats a pretty hefty distinction.

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