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Would VPN protect an individual against such actions?
VPN will encrypt your communications between your local PC/phone/device and the VPN server you connect to. After that, the data packet transits just as if you’re anywhere else. So if they can crack that encryption, your data is still open. They might not know where the packet came from, but if you are talking PII, that’s not really important. (Does it really matter what IP you had when you tell them your health history and name? Or full banking info?)
I really don't like that.
Even if it will get dismissed/amended so it doesn't ruin open and private internet, the direction it's all going really worries me. Every couple of months/years you will hear that the governments are trying again and again...Eventually they will succeed - enter "1984"
The governments don't even need to go that far, they just get the data directly from the corporations people just willingly divulge it to.
What about decentralised solutions like Matrix? I think they would have hard time accessing anything if it's stored on a private server. EDIT: Or is it on ISP level? So no matter how you access/communicate - it will all be scanned the point when data leaves your device and communicates with web.
Why would they get a VPN to exit from the UK tho lol