Guest Chris Mills Posted January 26, 2017 Posted January 26, 2017 The simplest weapon that users have to fight data collection, whether by the NSA or Facebook, is a Virtual Private Network (VPN). A VPN encrypts your internet traffic and reroutes it through a supposedly-anonymous server, which in theory makes it difficult or impossible to track an individual user. But a VPN's anonymity is only as good as the provider. Secretly setting up your own server, paid in cash, in a non-compromised data center would be the best case scenario. But that's impractial, so most people use a free or paid-for service, like the thousands of VPN apps on the Google Play Store. But according to one study, those apps are doing jack-all to protect your data. Continue reading... Trending right now: iPhone 7 Plus vs Google Pixel ‘bokeh’ shootout isn’t even close New video shows us what to expect from the Galaxy S8 T-Mobile employees share horror stories of lies and bill cramming in ‘wild outlaw’ stores Via BRG - Boy Genius Report
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