Maintaining online privacy is becoming a challenge as more and more devices are connected to the internet. The amount of data that is collected from you is quite staggering. Those ads that pop up after having a voice\/text conversation are no coincidence.<\/p>\n
A good strategy to mitigate intrusion of your privacy is using a VPN (Virtual Private Network). A VPN is a secure connection between two resources. When you jump on Google, you are heading out into the open internet through your ISP; they are the gateway for you to access information. They can log all of your activity and in certain cases, they can share your browsing history with third-parties like advertisers, police, or governments.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about\u201d<\/p>\n
You heard that before? It\u2019s a saying that is parroted by individuals who take their freedom for granted.<\/p>\n
To prevent these entities from creeping on you, using a VPN can reduce your digital footprint and keep your online business, your business.<\/p>\n
When you go online you are going through your ISP to access the web. When you use a VPN service, you connect to the VPN provider first, your data is encrypted, and then sent out over the broader internet using the IP of the VPN server. This can be located anywhere in the world and can obfuscate your true public IP and hardware information. So when you visit a website, that site will log your activity but what it\u2019s logging is useless since it\u2019s not actually you.<\/p>\n
This enhances your security when you are working remotely and using public wifi at a local cafe. Coffee shops don\u2019t have sophisticated IT infrastructures so spoofing SSID\u2019s and monitoring the network can be done by any visitor with no one noticing. If you are communicating over a VPN tunnel, you\u2019ll be safe from intrusion and network monitoring.<\/p>\n
Because it\u2019s no one’s business, that\u2019s the whole point of privacy. For some it\u2019s just an unsettling feeling knowing that they are being monitored by someone or something. For business owners, it\u2019s securing data from external threats. Others, it\u2019s about the principles of sovereignty and freedom. And the rest; to conduct illegal activity. Yes, this technology can keep you anonymous but only to an extent.<\/p>\n
If a VPN provider keeps logs of user traffic, you might as well save your money. There\u2019s nothing that guarantees nor will you ever know, if the VPN provider share\u2019s its user logs with other parties. You\u2019ll just have to \u2026trust\u2026them\u2026 You do have to create accounts with these providers, so probably not a good idea to use one one if you\u2019re planning on doing some shady stuff.<\/p>\n