Risks of VPNs --- This is one of the risks of ordinary VPNs that is often not discussed or recognised, especially when used by people in vulnerable positions like journalists, activists and dissenters. While propitiatory VPNs will definitely do the intended job of obscuring your traffic, there is really no guarantee that they are not in fact maintaining a log of your real IP address, which they will have access to and that under certain circumstances, that data will not be hacked or misused or handed over to state actors. When ExpressVPN was recently bought out by another company, many privacy activists raised concerns, due to the history of the parent company - this might be important to consider for certain groups of people before purchasing a particular VPN.

Source author: Pavitra Ramanujam pavitra.ramanujam@gmail.com