Yes the government have already talked about banning VPNs and government taking copies of your private keys :-/
It was for anti-terror, but now its being used on pricks like Yaxely-lenon, who Imagine will make much hay from it.
Imagine the IT departments of every mutltinational corporation desperately trying to sort out permissions to keep important information off of machines deployed in the UK. New authorization groups for everyone in the UK, lots of meetings with lawyers to sort out what they can have access to. Everyone in the UK becomes a second class psuedo-trustworthy employee overnight.
Were I in charge of IT, when that bombshell came across my desk, I think I would give every UK employee a chromebook, and migrate all workloads to the cloud. No data could be saved locally. No thumb drives. Depending on the availability of good cloud tools, the productivity hit might be so large that layoffs would be warranted.
Companies will be permitted to use vpns as long as their AUP forbid employees from using their own for personal reasons.
Or so.
Plenty of the ways authoritarian can go.
VPN companies like Mullvad currently accept anonymous accounts with payment via crypto.
You can also just lie about your country of origin when signing up to a VPN account even with a 'compliant' provider that blocks UK IPs.
If I'm wrong someone can drop me a link since I live in the UK.
If you live here how can you not spot how every govt since they kicked out brown has been pushing for this?
I don't rule out they are daft enough to consider it, I just think they aren't quite that stupid.
OSA was a "something must be done, this is something, it must be done" thing - they can appease the mumsnet types for a bit with it and would generally prefer it quietly went back to sleep for a bit.
Not least because it's gonna hurt them electorally because while the people who are slightly in favour of it where slightly in favour of it a lot of the people who aren't really aren't seeing it as either unworkable, stupid or unworkable and stupid.