Quelle Surprise: UK’s Online Age Verification Law Triggers Explosion in Demand for VPNs

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Quelle Surprise: UK’s Online Age Verification Law Triggers Explosion in Demand for VPNs

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As much as it saddens me to say, it looks like we were right: online age verification is being used as a Trojan horse for the mass rollout of digital identity systems.
Last Friday (July 25), the Starmer government took a historic step by making age verification checks mandatory for…

This story appeared on nakedcapitalism.com, 2025-08-01 10:45:38.