Reasoning:

• There is indeed a proposed amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill in the UK that would impose age assurance restrictions on VPN providers¹²
• The amendment requires VPN providers to apply "age assurance which is highly effective at correctly determining whether or not that person is a child" to any person seeking to access their service from the UK¹
• "Highly effective" age assurance in practice typically requires government-issued identification or facial biometric scans, which would effectively force all VPN users (including adults) to provide digital identification to prove they are not children²
• The amendment has passed the House of Lords with 207 votes in favor and 159 against, but it faces an uncertain future as the governing Labour Party largely opposed it, and it must still survive scrutiny in the House of Commons¹
• The proposal is specifically designed to prevent children from using VPNs to bypass age-gating requirements established by the Online Safety Act²
• The claim is accurate that this is a "proposed" law, not yet enacted legislation, and it would require digital identification for VPN use¹²

Overall validity: 85%

1. UK proposal for age checks on VPNs begins to look like a policy traffic jam | Biometric Update
2. UK Lords propose ban on VPNs for children | TechRadar