

While Lock and Code has spoken to several guests about online privacy in the past, we wanted to revisit the topic because of its intersection with VPNs, the increasingly popular tools that consumers are using to protect some of their privacy online. And an anti-surveillance activist or lawyer at an organization like the American Civil Liberties Union or Electronic Frontier Foundation might tell you that online privacy means shutting down sweeping surveillance laws in the United States like Section 702 and Section 215.

A privacy-forward web browser, like Mozilla, or Brave, might tell you that online privacy means being protected from third-party tracking and surreptitious data collection. A VPN service might tell you that online privacy means obscuring your IP address and hiding your Internet activity from your Internet Service Provider. This beguilingly simply question can produce dozens of overlapping and distinct answers, all depending on who you ask.
