The bill also seeks “Action to prohibit the provision of VPN services to children in the United Kingdom” and wants “all regulated user-to-user services to use highly-effective age assurance measures to prevent children under the age of 16 from becoming or being users.” In practice, this means identity checks for VPN users, making things like anonymous whistleblowing difficult.
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The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet.
The lawmakers write: “Any relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software which is highly effective at preventing the recording, transmitting (by any means, including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM using that device.”
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Our latest desktop release, 2025.14, is removing support for OpenVPN entirely.
If you rely on OpenVPN you should stay on 2025.13 until the OpenVPN servers are shut down in January 2026.
Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/removing-openvpn-from-the-mullvad-vpn-app
Today, the trilogue negotiations start. Stop Chat Control.
https://media.mullvad.net/andthen/60s/Mullvad_AND_THEN_60s_ProRes422_Webmix_4K.mov
And then? AI and all the presidents.
Mass surveillance is always a slippery slope.
It does not belong in free and open societies.
The backstory: https://mullvad.net/blog/mullvad-vpn-present-and-then
And then? Graffiti artists and siblings with little heads.
Stop Chat Control.
The EU Council appear ready to approve Chat Control. This must be stopped.
To highlight the corruption behind the proposal, Mullvad VPN now present "And Then?" A film directed by Jonas Åkerlund.
The backstory: https://mullvad.net/blog/mullvad-vpn-present-and-then
We are excited to add Lightweight WireGuard Obfuscation, aimed at helping users bypass firewalls and censorship.
This new feature is now available on all desktop platforms and Android.
Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/introducing-lightweight-wireguard-obfuscation
An independent security audit of our web app has just been completed by Assured. The assessment found no critical, high, or medium-severity issues.
Read more here:
https://mullvad.net/blog/independent-security-audit-of-our-web-app-completed-by-assured
Reminder about removing OpenVPN: we are removing support for OpenVPN entirely on 15th January 2026, in six months time.
OpenVPN servers will be completely removed on this date, and support for it within our app will disappear.
Please reconfigure your configurations to use WireGuard to avoid interruptions.
Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/reminder-that-openvpn-is-being-removed
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We blogged about this here:
https://mullvad.net/blog/removing-openvpn-15th-january-2026
For further questions, please contact our Support Team.
support at mullvadvpnt dot net
Today we're launching Mullvad VPN loader - a new application for installing the Mullvad VPN desktop app on Windows and macOS which is both fast and secure.
Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/launching-mullvad-vpn-loader
Starting with version 2025.2, our Android app builds are reproducible. This means you can verify that the app you download and install is built from the open source code we publish.
Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/reproducible-builds-verify-our-android-app-builds-bit-for-bit
The EU initiative Going Dark has now been launched by the EU Commission. They call it ProtectEU.
It’s a rebranding of Chat Control. New name. Same old propaganda.
The EU Commission’s goal is to “access encrypted data in a lawful manner, safeguarding cybersecurity and fundamental rights.”
Read the full release from the Commission here:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52025PC0148
Multihop now available on Android version 2025.1 and newer.
Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/multihop-now-available-on-android
DAITA version 2 now available on all platforms: https://mullvad.net/blog/daita-version-2-now-available-on-all-platforms
Become an early adopter and help us test Mullvad Browser Alpha.
Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/help-test-mullvad-browser-alpha
Law enforcement agencies from the EU, North America and Australia continue their work to gain future lawful access to private communications within the EU initiative Going Dark.
We also note that VPNs are mentioned under “key challenges”.
https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-15941-2024-REV-2/en/pdf
We have found a bug with DAITA and multihop in the iOS app (2025.1 and 2025.2).
We are working on releasing a fix in 2025.3.
https://mullvad.net/blog/daita-bug-in-ios-app-versions-20251-and-20252
The Swedish and French governments are following in the footsteps of the FBI and want to demand backdoors in end-to-end encrypted messaging services like nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqqmlark5zym2u576hfmecfaa2els8eln4rxls76z24l3g7pq48rvqk92wc8 as nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqynlz3qpjg3zsmskuy80hmy6vgv5kht4kugld9mvd36fxuy8kgm9q4yka48 said in the Swedish news:
"There is no such thing as a backdoor that only the good guys can access.”
To the Swedish and French governments, and to all politicians who believe that they can stop data from ending up in the wrong hands with rules and restrictions: don’t be naive.
