Encryption & data protection (all you need to know)

Explore how different types of VPNs use encryption to protect your data and privacy

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Encryption on the public web has been a huge advancement for personal data security. However, with the rise of AI-powered data tracking technologies, encryption is not itself a sufficient protection for user privacy. A lot of personal information is being obtained by harvesting and analyzing the metadata around our encrypted traffic: browsing habits, communication patterns, desires, and even our political leanings.

This is why a Virtual Private Network (VPN), if chosen wisely, can be a crucial privacy tool. A privacy-structured VPN can not only add additional encryption layers to our data, but also obscure our IP addresses and traffic patterns. In shopping for a VPN for privacy, it’s important to know that there are fundamentally different types of VPNs to choose from (some of which may even do more harm than good).

The large majority of VPNs on the market use private and centralized server(s). When it comes to data breaches or mass surveillance, these services pose too many risks regardless of any encryption they might add. Privacy networks like Tor provide multi-layered encryption through a decentralized network, but with noticeable latency and tracking vulnerabilities. Now there are decentralized VPNs (dVPNs) which can provide robust privacy protections with less latency.

Nym will walk you through how encryption works on all of these VPN choices so you can understand the level of data security and privacy they provide.

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