{"id":210168,"date":"2026-05-15T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/fact-check-is-the-eu-about-to-restrict-the-use-of-vpns\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:49:07","slug":"fact-check-is-the-eu-about-to-restrict-the-use-of-vpns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/fact-check-is-the-eu-about-to-restrict-the-use-of-vpns\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Is the EU about to restrict the use of VPNs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claims that the EU could restrict the use of VPNs have spread widely online in recent weeks, prompting concerns among some users about digital freedoms and online privacy. However, they seem to have stemmed from a misunderstanding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/05\/15\/fact-check-is-the-eu-about-to-restrict-the-use-of-vpns\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claims that the EU could restrict the use of VPNs have spread widely online in recent weeks, prompting concerns among some users about digital freedoms and online privacy. However, they seem to have stemmed from a misunderstanding. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":210169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}