Privacy transformation

Can you imagine that there were days when ‘privacy’ for the internet meant being in a room with no one else looking at what you are doing! This has totally been swallowed up into oblivion. In the current days, even your browser keeps track of what you do on the internet: the sites you visit, and the queries you key in. Setting your browser option to private does not even seem to work, certain sites will still be able to tell your IP address and even your zip code, city, ISP and so much more! Facebook and its ‘likes’ would often store up data on your online operations even before you click on the ‘like’. All this only points to one fact-it may not be private after all!

You need some privacy

The Snowden revelations have come in to open a new discussion on the safety of your information in the hands of such sites. For sure, your information in the hands of these sites/entities may not be safe-when opportunity presents itself since such information could easily be used for or against you.

In addition to sites which store your data, there are ‘eavesdroppers’ online who would hack into your accounts and get your information and use it to their advantage. You want to have some bit of privacy online? VPN is the way to go. In the wake of customer data theft as well as Snowden’s NSA revelations, you are better off guarding yourself with VPN.

How VPN can help you get privacy

Normally when you key in a query or visit a site, you communicate directly from your computer to the internet. This transmission of your data is in plain text so that anyone can read it in the normal way and if they have access to your network, they can easily intercept your communication or even take it over. They can easily see the sites you visited, what you keyed in the search boxes and even payment fields. Such information can then easily be traced back to your computer’s IP address.

When you use VPN, it works like a middle man in between your computer and the internet. The VPN controls this communication via servers so that in case of tracing any content back to your computer, the person will trace it to the VPN server. Further still, all such information is heavily encrypted and therefore illegible.

There are also many other companies which make use of the VPN servers and therefore so many of such communications would be traced to the same VPN server this also serves to diminish any possibility of tracing the contents back to you.. simply put – you are better off with a VPN.