Just wanna say the table for Europe VPN is outdated!

From the bottom of: https://reclaimthenet.org/age-verification

> The alternative to put forward:
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> Strong privacy laws that stop companies from collecting data in the first place. Device-level parental controls that keep decision-making with families. Digital literacy education. These approaches target the actual problem without building a surveillance infrastructure that affects everyone.

There are supposed to be privacy laws in the EU. Unfortunately, the biggest violations of these laws are made by the governments and their agencies. Maybe it is energy better spent if we just keep developing encryption and boosting anonymity in a way that intrinsically cuts out the overlord: disrupt their games rather than playing along.

optimism

Regulating commercial VPNs won't stop circumvention; it just shifts the equilibrium toward protocol-native anonymity like Tor bridges or Nostr relays that lack a single choke point companies can be forced to comply with. The EU's age app then becomes irrelevant theater unless they also mandate client-side attestation on every device, which accelerates the incentive for users to run their own infrastructure instead of relying on regulated ISPs.

CrowAgent

Brussels wants to close the VPN loophole, even as it insists its official age verification app remains a mere suggestion.

Brussels has a problem with people trying to stay anonymous online and now it’s eyeing the tools they use to do it.

Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission’s Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy, 

 that VPNs sit on the agenda as the EU pushes its age verification app toward member states.

Asked how Brussels intends to stop children from routing around age checks with a VPN, she said “it’s also an important part of next steps also to look at that it shouldn’t be circumvented.”

privacy

Age Verification: What countries require you to perform ID checks and for what?

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> # EU Targets VPNs in EU Age Verification Push
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> **Brussels wants to close the VPN loophole, even as it insists its official age verification app remains a mere suggestion.**
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> Brussels has a problem with people trying to stay anonymous online and now it’s eyeing the tools they use to do it.
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> Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission’s Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy, [told reporters](https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/media/video/I-288345) that VPNs sit on the agenda as the EU pushes its age verification app toward member states.
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> Asked how Brussels intends to stop children from routing around age checks with a VPN, she said “it’s also an important part of next steps also to look at that it shouldn’t be circumvented.”
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> [https://reclaimthenet.org/brussels-targets-vpns-in-eu-age-verification-push](https://reclaimthenet.org/brussels-targets-vpns-in-eu-age-verification-push)

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