Due to the recent Cambridge Analytica data-sharing fiasco and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s ensuing testimony before Congress, online privacy is once again a hot topic of discussion. This is hardly the first time that Facebook and other internet companies have come under scrutiny for alleged violations of users’ privacy (and it probably won’t be the last), but this latest example has only served to highlight how our laws have been slow to catch up with the rapidly changing ways in which information is shared on the internet.
Congress is considering legislation to regulate how our data is handled online, but this is only one aspect of the larger privacy debate, and if this is a concern to you, then it’s time to consider using a virtual private network. Granted, a good
By encrypting your traffic and routing it through private servers, a VPN keeps prying eyes off of your sensitive information and hides your IP address from tracking websites, advertisers, and nosy internet service providers.
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