This week’s privacy warning is loud.
Utah has become the first US state, according to EFF, to target VPN use around legally mandated age-verification gates.
That matters because VPNs are not “loopholes.” They are basic privacy and security tools used by journalists, workers, abuse survivors, activists, and ordinary people who simply do not want every click tied to their identity.
At the same time, EFF is also highlighting the bigger pattern: platforms being degraded for profit, ALPR surveillance being hidden from public records, and border surveillance becoming more advanced, more normalised, and harder to spot.
This is why digital rights matter.
Privacy tools should not be treated as suspicious.
Public records should not be closed when surveillance expands.
And the internet should not be reshaped around control while being sold to us as safety.
Where do you think the line should be drawn between safety rules and privacy rights?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/utahs-new-law-regulating-vpns-goes-effect-next-week
https://www.eff.org/event/effecting-change-enshittification
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/open-records-laws-reveal-alprs-sprawling-surveillance-now-states-want-block-what
https://www.eff.org/pages/zine-surveillance-technology-us-mexico-border
#Privacy #VPN #DigitalRights #EFF #Surveillance #InternetFreedom #FreeSpeech #SelfSovereignty #Decentralisation
beitmenotyou1 / Michael J Burgess
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