Earlier this month, the UK announced that they were going to start monitoring their citizens internet, email, and phone communications. The U.S. Congress has another privacy invading bill, CISPA, that enables the monitoring of Americans. The RIAA and several ISP's have made an agreement to monitor the ISP customers. Censorship and monitoring by the governments and corporate entities has become rampant. VPN service popularity has risen massively over the last year, and it's not difficult to see why.
An Escalation Of Events
A VPN Service can prevent situations like this:
I used to keep my personal home Wifi open for all the kids, and others in my neighborhood...I mean, the kids that play around my house really don't want to go all the way home just to get a song that they were trying to let their friends check out. This created a friendly atmosphere of cooperation in my neighborhood. But, with the program being implemented, I can no longer allow this. If one of the kids, or another person, uses my internet connection, and downloads copyrighted, or illegal, material I have to accept the blame...it is my account. For the moment, I have choked the stream to reduce the chance any kind of activity like this, and informed those that have asked of my dilemma.
Outside Of The Government Nosiness
A VPN service can help in situations like this:
Your company has decided to invest in the infrastructure of a country in the mid-east. While the trip will be relatively safe as far as physically speaking goes, you will need to access sensitive data back home, and possibly internet websites that could be filtered by the local regime. There is also the possibility of competitors attempting to gain corporate bidding information... A VPN service will not only keep you safe from corporate hackers, but you will be able to get any information from the internet in complete security and privacy.
Potential Problems In The Future
A VPN service can save you from possible employee issues:
Your ISP is Comcast, who has been monitoring all your internet communications, (with zero incidents and no VPN service, congratulations,) but suddenly after you have been with them 3 years, one of their employees has absconded with the records of more than 2,000 customers...meaning, the person has log-ins for all the bank accounts, credit card, and any other financial and account information that person may have ever used on the internet. These records would likely contain social security numbers, birth dates, maiden names, and an infinite amount of other information.
Privacy Isn't A Guarantee - Not Anymore
It's not just the hackers anymore. It seems that the government has far farther reaching aspirations than even the most notorious of the internet pirates and thieves. But it seems that way in almost everything they get in to.
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