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Originally Posted by Paul
Sounds a bit like blustering to me, the point of VPNs is they are private, you cant just "monitor" them.
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Does sound like a degree of handwaving is going on here - the lack of any specifics, the use of fairly meaningless buzzwords etc.
Since ISPs by law have to keep records of which sites you connect to and when, they will know that an individual home/account (they can’t say who in the house it was) connected to a known VPN endpoint; after that they are blind. As you rightly say the ‘P’ in VPN stands for ‘private’.
After connecting to a VPN, where you go from there, what sites you visit, what you download etc. is completely hidden.
At best, all OFCOM can say is, "we have noticed and ‘monitored’ an x% increase in traffic to known VPN endpoints all located abroad.” And that’s it.