{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_n5pxye5nfsn3gfg7cwtq","title":"Court Agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/court-agrees-with-eff-utahs-vpn-law-demands-a-technical-impossibility-n5pxye5nfs","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_n5pxye5nfsn3gfg7cwtq","seq":1842655,"kind":"community","title":"Court Agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility","url":"https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/10/17/2153207/court-agrees-with-eff-utahs-vpn-law-demands-a-technical-impossibility","summary":"\"When state lawmakers attempt to rewrite how the internet works,\" argues an EFF blog post, \"users rely on courts to recognize that laws can't make technical impossibilities a reality.\" \"That's why we were happy to see that a court has blocked Utah's attempt to outlaw the privacy protections of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).\" In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah's SB 73, the state's draconian anti-VPN age…","published":"2026-10-17T22:00:00Z","seen":"2026-10-18T09:41:00Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"slashdot","name":"Slashdot","domain":"slashdot.org","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q59083","name":"Slashdot","type":"website","designations":["social news website","website"]}},"via":"slashdot","topics":["technology"],"authors":["EditorDavid"],"entities":[{"id":"Q624023","name":"Electronic Frontier Foundation","type":"org"},{"id":"Q829","name":"Utah","type":"place"}],"story":"st_n5pxye5nfsn3gfg7cwtq","category":"science-technology","category_p":0.3400000035762787,"category2":"politics","sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.3700000047683716,"political":0.5400000214576721}]}