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French telecoms giant sparks Socialist MP’s anger with new VPN
French telecoms giant Free has been accused of undermining child protection efforts in the country by French Socialist MP Thierry Sother. Her comments came after the French company rolled out a free…
The move has not gone unnoticed by lawmakers: “The VPN offered by Free allows minors to circumvent online age restrictions,” Sother said in a letter to French digital regulator Acorm yesterday. Beyond the regulations already in place, such an initiative “also pre-empts and jeopardises the French legislator’s ability to introduce further restrictions or prohibitions on access to certain websites from within France”, the MP wrote. “This is a major step for privacy and an additional tool for French people to defend themselves against the new censorship measures put in place by France and the EU,” one Free subscriber wrote.
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