Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52889334

The UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, has told TechRadar that it’s using an unnamed third-party tool to monitor VPN use in the UK.

  • ski11erboi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    Thank you this answers my question!

    TLDR basically the size and frequency of data being sent to and from a website acts like a digital fingerprint even if ISPs can’t see what’s in those data packets. Looks like there’s an easy fix by having VPNs add random background noise data.