Warning to UK households using VPN to get around new age blocker law | UK | News
People throughout the UK are downloading VPNs to overcome the age verification controls of the new online security law.
As of Friday, July 25, various websites are now demanding users to upload their identity or approve their age to access adults only after the new law has entered into force or to access the unaily access to business content.
It also means that social media users in Reddit and X need to prove their age to access platforms. As a result, VPNs have seen a huge increase in downloads while trying to remove new arrangements by hiding their browsing behind a thousands of British virtual private networks.
Instead of a simple age gate, web users in the UK are now forced to show identity or evaluate their faces for age verification, claiming that some of them are concern about how the data will be collected and stored by a US company.
Proton VPN, a company that offers VPN service to users around the world, reported that there was a major increase in registrations from British web users in the first hour of the law.
VPN is a virtual private network. They can be used to hide the origin of a user’s origin and other information by skipping information through a remote server. Some normal uses of VPNs include signing a working system in a single working network to access files and documents safely.
However, despite the fact that using a VPN is completely legal in the UK, experts warned people using a VPN to expose themselves to the risk of attacks.
Many free VPN has been weakly secured and may be explaining or delivering your data to cyber criminals.
Daniel Card, a cyber security expert of Chartered Institute BCS, told BBC: “Most of these free VPNs are full of problems.
“Some act as traffic brokers for companies that collect data, and others are exposed to attacks.
“Even though users with more privacy consciousness remain loyal to reputable services … There will be no an average person.
“They will download the first free application with good examinations without realizing that they are often accessible to their data.”
