Users have a huge choice when it comes to VPN providers. New VPN providers are popping up every day as the demand for VPN services increases, largely due to increasing awareness of how governments everywhere are ignoring internet users’ right to privacy. People in countries such as China and Iran have been using VPNs for a long time to bypass their governments’ censorship and prevent spying. Fundamental liberties are now coming under increasing attack even in the so-called ‘free’ world.

Proposed legislation such as the United Kingdom’s Communications Data Bill (a.k.a. ‘the Snoopers’ Charter’), or the United States’ Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) are intended to grant these governments far-reaching and unprecedented access to their citizens online activities. This would include every site visited and every e-mail message sent. The entertainment industry also has plans (fully backed by many governments) to hunt down file-sharers and bring them to trial, employing ‘copyright trolls’ to threaten suspected file-sharers in the hope of extracting money from them. When you add this all up, it’s no wonder so many internet users are looking to VPNs as a way of protecting their privacy online.