Are VPNs next on the UK's ban list? 🚫💻
First, it was age checks for websites. Now, UK MPs are turning their sights on VPNs.
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Your phone might soon block nudity by default 🔒
Imagine trying to open a photo on your own phone and getting blocked until you scan your ID. 🛑
🔒 UK Reverses Course on Apple Cloud Encryption Demands
📢 Important update for tech, legal, and policy professionals
The UK government has paused its proposal to compel Apple to weaken encryption on its cloud storage services — a move that would have had sweeping implications for user privacy, global tech policy, and corporate data protection standards.
🚫 Apple had strongly resisted the demand, citing its commitment to end-to-end encryption and refusal to compromise user security.
🔐 Supreme Court Upholds Age Verification Law
What It Means for Free Speech, Privacy, and the Internet's Future
On June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas’s HB 1181, mandating strict age verification (digital ID or biometric scans) for websites where over ⅓ of content is deemed "harmful to minors."
This ruling in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton could reshape the internet as we know it.
🔐 Encryption is not a loophole
It’s a lifeline
Right now, Congress is considering legislation that could effectively ban encrypted apps by forcing companies to build dangerous backdoors into private communications.
These proposals threaten the security of journalists, whistleblowers, business professionals, and everyday users who depend on end-to-end encryption to communicate safely and confidentially. 💼🛡️
EFF is sounding the alarm. And we all should be too.