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Is the Government Running a Dragnet on VPN Users? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 4 days ago by ExtremeDullard@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Wyden has asked the government to warn Americans that the very tool millions use to protect their privacy may be used as a mass surveillance tool against them.

He says "Warn Americans how government are treating VPNs."

When Wyden asks pointed questions in public, it's usually because of something he can't say out loud. Remember his Senate hearing in 2013? Don't worry, we'll remind you.

So what does Wyden know? And should you still be using a VPN?

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

Tbf if you're using a US based VPN company and/or US based servers and you're trying to hide from the US government, I mean what do you expect? Try using Mullvad and servers in Switzerland and you'll probably have a better chance, but frankly VPNs have never been for hiding from government level threats, that's what Tails/Tor and Qubes/Whonix are for (and even then there's the possibility of correlation attacks since like most nodes are controlled by the US gov, but if people started running more nodes themselves that would help a lot.)