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VPNs need to follow best practices to ensure
the safety of their users. The reputation of
this important technology rests on VPNs
following technical and ethical best practices.
The VTI gathers VPN insiders and aligns
industry voices to advocate, create, vet, and
validate industry policies and guidelines that
ensure trust in the VPN marketplace and
promote constructive self-regulatory
practices to best serve consumers.
WHY WE NEED (SOMETHING LIKE) THIS
VPN technology has been around for years, but it
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But it wasn’t all good news. VPN companies
started popping up like mushrooms after a
rainstorm, and some disappeared just as quickly.
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