# Court Agrees with EFF: Utah’s VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility

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- Publisher: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Author credit: Rindala Alajaji
- Category: Cyber
- Original publication time: 2026-10-01T19:57:20Z
- First observed by NexusTechWire: 2026-10-01T20:28:37Z
- Original source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/court-agrees-eff-utahs-vpn-law-demands-technical-impossibility
- NexusTechWire record: https://nexustechwire.com/news/news-e13eb55edf540c62dcca

## The brief

EFF reports that a federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of Utah’s VPN-related location requirements in SB 73. The organization argues that websites cannot reliably determine every VPN user’s physical location and that the requirements would expand invasive age checks beyond Utah. The ruling is a preliminary injunction, rather than a final decision; the lawsuit does not challenge the separate restriction on sharing VPN instructions.

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Source license: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source material adapted into an original NexusTechWire brief. Original source license applies.

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