The lead article in a high profile Windows e-Letter this week is “ISPs assist in cutting off file-sharing users”.
Essentially, ISPs are logging your internet traffic and in some cases reporting where you go and what you download to governments, advertisers, and copyright holders. The goal for the copyright holders is to stop file sharing of music and movies using BitTorrent or other peer2peer file sharing.
Do you want your internet usage recorded, monitored and filtered? If not, keep reading.
In the past, ISPs have seen their primary obligation to customers to NOT monitor or inspect your internet traffic unless necessary for the provision of the service; detecting spambots comes to mind. And typically, they would only disclose your IP address and internet usage upon being presented a court order.
Increasingly, though, ISPs are feeling the pressure. In many countries, legislation is forcing ISPs to keep logs and turn them over. China and Russia, you’re thinking, right? Nope. Great Britain is at the top of the list. (No surprise with all of their surveillance cameras on their own innocent citizens.)
Basically, any files, emails or other information passing through your internet connection that is not encrypted, such as with a secure VPN tunnel service, your ISP can read, log and pass on to authorities or whomever. And they are doing so more and more.
Your IP address is how they identify you, and laws are now being construed to say that your IP address is public information just like your house street address. Even if you have a dynamic IP address, your ISP knows when you had what address and what files (music, video, etc) you downloaded while you had that IP address. Busted.
This blog is NOT encouraging any illegal activity. But as an advocate of privacy we feel that anything you choose to access on the internet is your business and not the business of your ISP to track what you do in case some overreaching government official thinks he wants to know. Nor do you pay your ISP to be a snitch to the recording or film industry.
The way to protect yourself is to make sure you hide your IP address from those who want to track your activity. A secure VPN tunnel service like the FAST, inexpensive GoTrusted will protect your internet activity from your ISP. Your ISP will know your IP address but not what you do. The websites you visit will know what you do but not who you are – they will see one of GoTrusted’s IP addresses, not yours.
And GoTrusted keeps NO LOGS of your activity.
The secure VPN tunnel also lets you bypass any ISP filtering. Because they don’t know what you’re doing in the encrypted VPN tunnel.
Others might try to tell you there are other means of vpn tunnels and anonymous proxies that will protect you. We’ve tried them. The free ones like Tor Project are difficult to setup and SLOW. GoTrusted is FAST and easy to use.
Other secure VPN tunnel services might be as good as GoTrusted, but they are at least TWICE the price, some TEN TIMES the price!
Many services do not offer a free trial.
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