French Digital Minister Clara Chappaz has admitted it's possible to bypass age verification on pornographic platforms by using a VPN - but on the sidelines during the Telecom Council meeting on Friday she told Euractiv that age checks still significantly reduce children's access to inappropriate content.

After three major pornographic websites, including Pornhub, blocked access to French users last week, the Swiss privacy software maker Proton suggested in a post on X that it's seen a surge in people using its VPN software in France, presumably in a bid to circumvent the porn blocks.

VPN services are software tools that create a secure, encrypted tunnel which allows users to hide their IP address - effectively masking their location from websites and service providers.

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