Until recently, I would typically associate the use of a VPN for either a business using a WAN (Wide Area Network) or persons using a "Torrent" for file downloads. But with the recent end of "Net Neutrality", it could be said that it's "open season" for ISPs to release information about their users' browsing habits. Now, why would someone want to retain anonymity from their ISP? Is it because they are doing something illegal, like downloading pirate movies? Potentially, sure but even law-abiding internet citizens should consider whether the use of a VPN is a practical move.
My reasoning is simple, the end of "Net Neutrality" is furthering the concept that "privacy is not a right". In my parent's generation if a company wanted your contact information for a raffle they would be asking: "How much of this information will you sell to a third party?" Nowadays I see individuals signing off half of their identity without any regard for how this information will be used. It shows that we as a people are giving our privacy less value, less importance. Every time we agree to a EULA (End User License Agreement) that says we can do all this for free, just in exchange for the rights to any personal identifying information they can get, we as people devalue the very concept of "privacy".
The current precedents and the manner in which people state "I value my privacy" in one breath and then "click away" those very rights in exchange for cheap internet, free video games or a free Email provider contradict each other. It is time to look at these agreements that we keep just scrolling to the end of and blindly agreeing with, it is time to do more than just gripe about how our representatives have failed our interests, it is time to really ask yourself one thing: "Do I value my privacy? Or just say I do?"
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