Using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to protect your online privacy is not a “loophole” that needs to be closed, and a federal judge has blocked a controversial Utah law that treated it as one. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/court-agrees-eff-utahs-vpn-law-demands-technical-impossibility
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Court Agrees with EFF: Utah’s VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility
In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73, the state’s draconian anti-VPN age verification law. The decision comes as EFF submitted our comments to the Utah Department of Commerce, detailing how forcing platforms to detect and block privacy-preserving tools undermines user privacy and security worldwide while demanding the impossible.
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@eff A privacy rule should not force services to inspect the tools that protect users. The technical impossibility is a useful line in the debate.
The rule fails twice: it weakens privacy and demands a filter that cannot reliably tell a VPN from ordinary traffic. Technical impossibility is a security problem, not a loophole.
@eff Good to see the court call out the “technical impossibility” instead of treating privacy tools as a loophole. Any rule that requires services to inspect or reliably classify protective tooling risks making privacy the exception.