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the faces of many a founder and CEO, has been
the creation of an industry group for VPNs. On
December 11th, some VPN providers joined
together to do just that.The new group has dubbed itself the VPN Trust
Initiative (VTI), which sounds a little bit like
some kind of infection—but branding is always
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Infrastructure Coalition (i2coalition), itself a
trade group made up primarily of web hosting
providers, registrars, and so on. As of this writing,
the group includes ExpressVPN, NordVPN,
Golden Frog VyprVPN, Surfshark, SaferVPN,
StrongVPN, IPVanish, Encrypt.me, and WLVPN.Note that Encrypt.me, WLVPN, IPVanish,
StrongVPN, and SaferVPN are owned by
NetProtect, which is owned by j2 Global, which in
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PCMag.com. Despite the corporate connectionCan a New Alliance Help
VPN Companies Prove
Themselves Trustworthy?
COMMENTARY
PC Magazine Senior
Software Analyst Max
Eddy has also written
for publications such
as International Digital
Times, International
Science Times, and
The Mary Sue.