Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet.

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elgordino@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I had to hunt to find them, they are proposed amendments and not yet part of the bill.

Go here https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909/publications

And expand out ‘Ammendment Papers’ and choose ‘ HL Bill 135 Running list of amendments – 22 December 2025‘

It’s this doc

https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/64067/documents/7529

For example

LORD NASH
BARONESS CASS
BARONESS BENJAMIN

_ After Clause 27, insert the following new Clause—

“Action to prohibit the provision of VPN services to children in the United
Kingdom
(1) Within 12 months of the day on which this Act is passed the Secretary of State
must, for the purpose of furthering the protection and wellbeing of children, make
regulations which prohibit the provision to UK children of a Relevant VPN Service
(the “child VPN prohibition”).
(2) Regulations under subsection (1)—
(a) may make provision for the provider of a Relevant VPN Service to apply
to any person seeking to access its service in or from the UK age assurance
which is highly effective at correctly determining whether or not that
person is a child;
(b) must apply the child VPN prohibition to the provider of any Relevant
VPN Service which is, or is likely to be—
(i) offered or marketed to persons in the United Kingdom;
(ii) provided to a significant number of persons.
(c) must make provision for the monitoring and effective enforcement of the
child VPN prohibition.

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