On Tuesday U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution allowing ISPs to collect all possible data about their subscribers and selling it to third parties, we at NordVPN have noticed a sharp increase in inquiries from American Internet users worried about their privacy: the inquiries surged by 86% in the past few days.
ISPs might be allowed to collect data that includes precise geolocation, financial information, health information, children’s information and web browsing history.
If the House votes to approve the rollback of strict FCC’s privacy regulations that would have banned ISPs from selling subscriber’s data without their consent, then U.S. consumers will be forced to look for their own methods to stay private.
NordVPN’s CMO, Marty P. Kamden, has said:
“Such spikes in user interest in VPNs are not unusual – whenever a government announces increase in surveillance, people turn to privacy tools. We saw similar spikes back in November when UK passed the law dubbed “The Snoopers Charter” or after the revelation about CIA surveillance by the Wikileaks. We are worried about the global tendency to invade Internet users’ privacy, and we are glad we can offer a reliable tool that helps people keep their information private. We want to stress that privacy tools are needed every day, not only during such moments – to protect yourself from ever-growing online security threats and increasing surveillance.”
A VPN encrypts user data through a secure tunnel before accessing the Internet – this protects any sensitive information about one’s location by hiding their IP address. A VPN connects a user to the Internet through an alternative path than an ISP. The only information visible to an ISP is that a user is connected to a VPN server and nothing else. All other information is encrypted by the VPN’s security protocol.
NordVPN is determined to hide and secure users’ data with features like double encryption and a strict no logs policy. From the moment a user turns on NordVPN, their Internet data becomes encrypted. It becomes invisible to governments, ISPs, third party snoopers and even NordVPN.