{"id":183910,"date":"2026-02-02T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/france-might-seek-restrictions-on-vpn-use-in-campaign-to-keep-minors-off-social-media\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:15:14","slug":"france-might-seek-restrictions-on-vpn-use-in-campaign-to-keep-minors-off-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/france-might-seek-restrictions-on-vpn-use-in-campaign-to-keep-minors-off-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"France might seek restrictions on VPN use in campaign to keep minors off social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/cybersecurity\/france-might-seek-restrictions-on-vpn-use-in-campaign-to-keep-minors-off-social-media-205308716.html\">France might seek restrictions on VPN use in campaign to keep minors off social media<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/cybersecurity\/france-might-seek-restrictions-on-vpn-use-in-campaign-to-keep-minors-off-social-media-205308716.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/cybersecurity\/france-might-seek-restrictions-on-vpn-use-in-campaign-to-keep-minors-off-social-media-205308716.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-02 15:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>France is advancing a proposed ban on social media use for anyone under the age of 15, and some leaders are considering additional restrictions.<\/li>\n<li>Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs Anne Le H\u00e9nanff suggested that VPNs could be the next target as they might allow minors to bypass the social media ban.<\/li>\n<li>The French social media ban has passed a vote in France&#8217;s National Assembly, moving it forward for discussion in the Senate.<\/li>\n<li>Critics are concerned that these protective measures could veer into an authoritarian direction, particularly with regard to privacy and personal data.<\/li>\n<li>The legislative actions in France echo similar initiatives worldwide, raising concerns over privacy and the potential for age verification processes to become targets for hacks due to frequent data breaches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France might seek restrictions on VPN use in campaign to keep minors off social media&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/j0i2wkFQmA0n7AcJEfNp1w--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MDA-\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/2026-02\/4e7296a2-2bd0-481f-98a7-d23661f43f7c","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-183910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183912,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183910\/revisions\/183912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}