The lie: A virtual private network (VPN) connection is very secure. Why it is a lie: VPN encrypts your traffic. But someone could hack into your VPN username and password and access it, and therefore your traffic and all personally indefinable information. Also, your VPN service provider has access to your internet protocol address, URLs you visit, the amount of time you spend connected online, your browsing patterns, data, etc are visible to your provider. A VPN may protect you against your ISP from seeing your traffic, but not from the VPN owner. That is why many governments now use…
Three data privacy challenges
Today is a global data privacy day! Is there data privacy in reality? I have identified three challenges that prove privacy is just good for conferences. Here we go: Data privacy challenge 1: the entity called “marriage” Many married couples lack an understanding of data privacy. To most, data privacy applies outside the home. Marrieds or folks living together do not appreciate data privacy. They need unlimited access to the other partner’s data, but not theirs. Each wants to read the other partner’s private messages addressed to them. Wants to collect and know as much personally identifiable information about the…
