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Court blocks Utah law requiring websites to identify or block VPN users

eff.org 5 min read Editor score 6/10

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against Utah’s age-verification law, which would require websites to block VPN users or identify their physical locations. The ruling highlights the technical and privacy costs of trying to identify traffic masked by VPNs.

What

Utah SB 73 required covered adult websites to block VPN users or identify visitors’ physical locations.

How

A federal judge preliminarily blocked enforcement, finding the law likely unconstitutional and that it demanded a technical impossibility.

Why it matters

Compliance could require global web services to locate every visitor or age-verify everyone because a visitor might be masking their location.

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