Are Your VPNs Protecting You - Or Handing Your Data to Israel?

Are Your VPNs Protecting You - Or Handing Your Data to Israel?

July 26, 2025

KernowDamo

Starmer's Online Privacy Act came into force yesterday, driving many people to use VPN's - but who owns your VPN?

Right, so Keir Starmer’s Labour government has heralded the Online Safety Act as a landmark piece of legislation. Ministers have triumphantly described it as the most comprehensive attempt to make the internet safer for children, to protect them from the dark corners of the digital world, from adult content and pro-anorexia forums to sites glorifying self-harm and violence.

Ofcom’s new enforcement regime, that came into effect yesterday, is marketed as proof that the UK is taking a moral lead where other nations have failed to. Starmer’s government insists that this law represents responsible governance, a balance between technological innovation and child safety, and an answer to long-standing public concern about online harms.

Yet behind this narrative lies a troubling and perhaps even more dangerous consequence. The Online Safety Act, through its intrusive age verification rules, is not just forcing platforms to rethink content distribution... it is forcing ordinary British citizens to surrender sensitive identity information or face being locked out of large parts of the internet. And, as is already becoming clear, millions of Britons are refusing to comply.

Instead, they are turning to Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to bypass these checks. What sounds like a simple act of privacy preservation becomes far more sinister when one asks the question almost no one in Westminster seems to be asking: who exactly owns those VPNs, and what might they be doing with that data? And when that turns out to possibly be Israel, this story takes a whole different turn.

Right, so an investigation by MintPress News has revealed that Kape Technologies, an Israeli-linked company with a history of surveillance-related activity, now owns four of the world’s largest VPN services: ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, and ZenMate.

Kape’s leadership is also deeply connected to Unit 8200, Israel’s elite cyber-intelligence unit, a group notorious for hacking, metadata collection, and targeted surveillance operations. By pushing Britons into the arms of VPN providers to escape state-imposed digital ID checks, Starmer’s government may inadvertently have created a surveillance pipeline that funnels British citizens’ data through companies with documented ties to a state accused of genocide in Gaza.

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