Prominent backbench MP Sarah Champion launched a campaign against VPNs previously, saying: “My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.
"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.” And the Labour Party said there were “gaps” in the bill that needed to be amended.
What if the VPS’ start offering no-logs policies so it’s impossible to know anything about the traffic and encryption so they don’t even know whose that traffic?
This is gonna be an arms race and I don’t doubt of the stupidity of the politicians. The brexit showed us how dumb they can be.
No. I fully expect them to monitor the traffic from the UK. And search warrant your premises. People using VPNs are most likely going to have evidence (the keys for the VPN and ways to start it up) on the machines, in their house that they could seize. They don’t need to touch your VPS.
Like I say, it’ll be a rarity. It’s too much work to go after people wholesale for this and the manpower to get the hard evidence it prohibitive. But, they will make a few examples.
For court purposes (and they will be careful to keep these cases in magistrate courts unless there’s solid evidence of more crimes found), there will be enough evidence to show the changing traffic patterns and the proof of a working method of accessing sites from another jurisdiction present on the machines found in the user’s possession. More than enough for well trained magistrates to convict.
But look, this is IF they try to route of banning VPNs too. It’s just the ranting of one or two MPs right now.