VTI has joined 23 other advocacy groups and companies in an open letter to The Guardian, arguing that an evidence-based approach to protecting children online is the only way to actually achieve that goal. The letter states in part that vanishingly few children use VPNs to bypass age restrictions, and they are in fact “much…

VTI consistently asserts that any legislation of VPN access or operations must be evidence-based, and we are actively engaged in several ongoing conversations around age verification requirements. In our input to the UK Government’s “Growing up in an online world” consultation, we wrote, “Any approach should be evidence-based, proportionate, technically feasible, and mindful ofprivacy and…