VPN provider HideMy.name filed a lawsuit against Roskomnadzor demanding that its blocking, carried out without being included in the register of banned sites, be removed. The service has been blocked since July 2023 using TSPU, a technical means of countering threats, equipment that operators must install in networks according to the law on the “sovereign RuNet” of December 2021, Kommersant learned.
The lawsuit notes that TSPUs are legally designed to prevent threats to communications networks and that the VPN service “is only a client application and cannot pose a threat at all.”
The plaintiff’s representatives hope that the outcome of the case in their favor will help the owners of other resources blocked by a similar method. But it will be difficult to prove that VPN performance is affected on equipment installed by operators, experts say.
Subsequently, Roskomnadzor will issue an order according to which, starting from March 2024, VPN services will be blocked in all application stores, including the Play Market and App Store, if they provide citizens with access to blocked resources.
As previously reported, amid the lockdown, VPN services took up a third of the top downloaded apps on iOS in Russia.
Roskomnadzor has already blocked VPN generator, Lantern, Windscribe, Tachyon, Betternet, Cloudflare, Urban VPN, Amnezia, PIA, Proton, Openvpn connect, Planet, iVPN, Xeovo, Surfshark, Tunnelbear, P4PN and other VPN services.
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Source: RB
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