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Chiara Castro

The UK's online safety consultation ends today — here's what it could mean for VPNs

A person using a VPN on their phone with the UK Houses of Parliament in the background.

Today is the last day for citizens and organizations in the UK to have their say on which measures lawmakers should take to protect children online. Whether or not to age-gate VPN services is, perhaps, the most controversial point.

The Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) launched the three-month national consultation — dubbed "Growing up in the online world" — in March, noting that VPNs could face age restrictions if the findings indicated that these tools are guilty of undermining online safety protections.

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