Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults’ privacy

I spoke with New Scientist about a handful of clauses in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which is currently reaching the finish line of the Parliamentary process. These clauses are resurrecting several incredibly bad ideas which were debated out of the Online Safety Act, a good four or five years ago.

There are very good reasons that those clauses, and their unintended consequences, were taken out of the then-Bill.

But here we are, all these years later, seeing those bad ideas smashed with brute force into a completely separate bill.