AirVPN and UK Online Safety Bill

[The_Purist 1]

I read an article today that Meta may cease WhatsApp services to the UK when the UK implement the Online Safety Bill which blocks end to end encryption and gives the UK security services the ability to read/access pretty much what they want.

How will this affect AirVPN UK hosted servers?

[pj 72]

Hello!

A reference for the readers:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/uks-online-safety-bill-attacks-free-speech-and-encryption

We have not yet received anything by our legal advisors, therefore the following considerations do not include legal advice or opinions. It must also be said that the bill has not been approved yet.

That said, apparently the scope of the bill includes any user generated content platform (different enforcement according to the amount of users), so VPN servers are outside the scope.

Our forum and our XMPP servers would be inside the scope, but they operate outside UK jurisdiction so the bill will not affect any part of our services. Needless to say that running UK government proprietary software inside our machines with very high privileges (to allow traffic sniffing on any interface) is anyway a requirement by severely sick minds and we would never comply in any case.

Kind regards