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The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. The lawmakers write: “Any relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software which is highly effective at preventing the recording, transmitting (by any means, including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM using that device.” 1/2

GotaTun is a WireGuard® implementation written in Rust aimed at being fast, efficient and reliable. Now available to all Android users, we aim to ship it to the remaining platforms next year. Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/announcing-gotatun-the-future-of-wireguard-at-mullvad-vpn

The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to include VPN services. The Going Dark initiative, or ProtectEU as the Commission now calls it, wants to “enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner”. This is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt.

This is the final reminder that we are fully removing support for OpenVPN on January 15th 2026, in a month's time. Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/final-reminder-for-openvpn-removal

Our latest desktop release, 2025.14, is removing support for OpenVPN entirely. If you rely on OpenVPN you should stay on 2025.13 until the OpenVPN servers are shut down in January 2026. Read more here:

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Removing OpenVPN from the Mullvad VPN app | Mullvad VPN

In version 2025.14 of the desktop app, we removed the ability to select OpenVPN as a tunnel protocol.